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London Fever Hospital

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The first voluntary fever hospital was the Institution for the Care and Prevention of Contagious Fevers opened in 1802 at 2 Constitution Row. We found this on Greenwood's map. 'Constitution Row' is marked along an eastern section of Grays Inn Road, the section between (what is now) St Chad's Place and Swinton Street. 1815 the Institution moved a short walk away, to the west wing of the Smallpox Hospital at Battle Bridge, on the site now occupied by King's Cross Station.

1848 the Great Northern Railway acquired the site and the compensation money enabled the fever hospital to build a new Hospital on Kettle Field, a 4-acre site in Liverpool Road, the site with the plaques, opened in 1849.

1897 several new blocks were built on the site, including an isolation block where patients were admitted until their diagnosis had been confirmed. 1908 a new block was added for female patients, opened by Lady Balfour of Burleigh, wife of Lord Balfour, the President of the Hospital. In 1928 the Duchess of York laid the foundation stone for a new extension.

1938 a new isolation block was opened by the Duke of Kent. Before WW2 the Hospital had changed to become more of a general hospital. In 1948 the Hospital joined the NHS as part of the Royal Free Hospital teaching group, and was known as the Royal Free Hospital, Liverpool Road. It closed in 1975 and services were transferred to the new Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead.

Source: the splendid Lost Hospitals in London.

This image is a plan of the 19th century hospital.

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