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The London Fever Hospital was a
Originally established with 15 beds in 1802 in
NHS History: Fever Hospitals
1802 establishments in England Defunct hospitals in London History of the London Borough of Camden History of the London Borough of Islington Voluntary hospitals Fever hospitals
voluntary hospital Voluntary hospitals were created from the eighteenth century in England. In America, Ireland, and Australia, voluntary hospitals were established later. They can be distinguished from municipal hospitals, which were publicly owned, and private hosp ...
financed from public donations in Liverpool Road
Liverpool Road is a street in Islington, North London. It covers a distance of between Islington High Street and Holloway Road, running roughly parallel to Upper Street through the area of Barnsbury. It contains several attractive terraces o ...
in London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
. It was one of the first fever hospital
A fever hospital or isolation hospital is a hospital for infectious diseases such as scarlet fever and smallpox. Their purpose is to treat affected people while isolation (health care), isolating them from the general population. Early example ...
s in the country.
History
Originally established with 15 beds in 1802 in Gray's Inn Road
Gray's Inn Road (or Grays Inn Road) is an important road in the Bloomsbury district of Central London, in the London Borough of Camden. The road begins at the City of London boundary, where it bisects High Holborn, and ends at King's Cross and ...
, it moved in 1815 to the west wing of the Smallpox Hospital at Battle Bridge where it had 120 beds.
After the Northern Railway bought the original site for Kings Cross station the compensation money paid enabled the charity to commission a new Hospital on Kettle Field, a 4-acre site in Liverpool Road, Islington with 200 beds. The new hospital, which was designed by Charles Fowler
Charles Fowler (17 May 1792 – 26 September 1867) was an English architect, born and baptised at Cullompton, Devon. He is especially noted for his design of market buildings, including Covent Garden Market in London.
Life
Education and ear ...
, opened in 1848. By 1924 it had about 150 beds. A new wing was opened by the Duchess of York in 1928 and a new isolation block was opened by the Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent is a title that has been created several times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of King George V. Since 1942, the title has been held by Prince Edwar ...
in 1938.
In 1948, the hospital joined the National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...
under the same management as the Royal Free Hospital. After services had been transferred to the Royal Free Hospital, the hospital closed in 1975.
See also
*Grove Fever Hospital
The Grove Hospital, originally the Grove Fever Hospital, was a hospital for infectious diseases opened in Tooting Grove, London.
History
The hospital was opened as the Grove Fever Hospital in Tooting Grove, London in 1899. It became the Grove Mi ...
References
Further reading
*The London Fever Hospital. Lancet, 1848, ii, p 483 *The London Encyclopaedia
''The London Encyclopaedia'', first published in 1983, is a 1100-page historical reference work on the United Kingdom's capital city, London. The encyclopaedia covers the Greater London area.
Development
The first edition of the encyclopaedia w ...
; Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert. Macmillan 1995. {{ISBN, 978-0-333-57688-5, p 476, 692
External links
NHS History: Fever Hospitals
1802 establishments in England Defunct hospitals in London History of the London Borough of Camden History of the London Borough of Islington Voluntary hospitals Fever hospitals