Set up in a house at 178 King's Road, this hospital, like many at the time, quickly found its premises too small. It moved into the first hospital to be built dedicated to gynaecological diseases, in Fulham Road (the one with the plaque). This opened in 1883 but again became too small and the hospital moved to another purpose-built site in 1916, in what is now Dovehouse Street. This closed in 1988 and (in 2014) the site is now used by the Royal Brompton Hospital, but "Chelsea Hospital for Women" is still carved in the porch lintel.
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Chelsea Hospital for Women
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Chelsea Hospital for Women
Princess Alexandra was laying the foundation stone for the Chelsea Hospital f...
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Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians
It really is spelt "ophth...", amazing. This institute doesn't seem to exist any more and we can't discover which organisation it disappeared into.
1 memorial
L. C. Parkes
Louis Coltman Parkes. A medical doctor. Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea in 1909. Authored a good number of medical books - held by the Wellcome Collection. Obituary in the BMJ 31 October 19...
1 memorial
Timothy Richards Lewis
Born Hafod, Carmarthenshire. Posted to India where he began his investigations into cholera.
1 memorial
Theodore Mayerne
Physician, born Théodore Turquet de Mayerne in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied in Geneva and Heidelberg and moved to Paris where he founded a medical practice and began to support the views of Para...
1 memorial
William Moorcroft
Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer. Born Lancashire. First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution. He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...
Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan
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