The London Smallpox Hospital, sometimes known as the Middlesex County Hospital for Smallpox and Inoculation, was established in 1745–6 and was said to be the first establishment of its type in Europe. The earliest buildings were in the West End of London, Finsbury and Bethnal Green, but in 1752 it moved to the house formerly occupied by Sir John Oldcastle in Coldbath Fields, admitting patients from 1753.
[West of Farringdon Road.]
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A new hospital in
St Pancras was opened in 1793–4 and the Coldbath Fields building demolished in the 1860s.
[ The Hospital in Saint Pancras near ]Battle Bridge
Kings Cross is a district on either side of Euston Road, in north London, England, north of Charing Cross. It is bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell and Islington to the east, Holborn to the south and Euston to the west. It is ...
, was demolished to make way for St Pancras railway station
St Pancras railway station (), also known as London St Pancras or St Pancras International and officially since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is ...
. The Hospital was replaced by the Highgate Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital, erected in 1848–1850.
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