This building housed the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 1920-1939.
Seamen's Hospital Society Greenwich
WC1, Endsleigh Gardens, 41
Credit for this entry to: Matt Brown
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Tropical sickness
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases was founded on an ex-naval ship in 1821, b...
This school was founded in 1899 at the Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital by Patri...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Tropical sickness
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