The German Hospital, Dalston, was a hospital in
Dalston
Dalston () is an area of East London, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is northeast of Charing Cross. Dalston began as a hamlet on either side of Dalston Lane, and as the area urbanised the term also came to apply to surrounding areas i ...
,
East London
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.
History
The hospital was established in 1845 to offer free treatment to London’s then large German-speaking community which had a significant presence in the
East End.
The hospital’s German speaking staff remained on site during the
First World War
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, but were interned during the
Second World War
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with their places taken by British staff.
It joined the
National Health Service
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in 1948 and became a
psychiatric
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Initial psychiatric assessment of ...
hospital in 1974.
[ The hospital, popularly known as ‘The German’, closed in 1987 and patients were transferred to Homerton Hospital. Some of its buildings are now used for ]affordable housing
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. Parts of the buildings are grade II listed
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.[
]
References
Further reading
* McKellar, Elizabeth (1991), ''The German Hospital Hackney. A Social and Architectural History 1847–1987''. London.
* Specht, Maureen (2nd edition 1997), ''The German Hospital in London and the Community it served 1845 to 1948''. Anglo-German Family History Society Publications.
* Swinbank, Christiane (2007) ''Medicine, Philanthropy and Religion. Selective Intercultural Transfers at the German Hospital in London, 1845–1914''. In: Stefan Manz, Margit Schulte Beerbühl, John R. Davis (Ed.): ''Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain 1660–1914'' (Prince Albert Research Publications 3). Munich, pp. 119–130.
* Waddington, Keir (2000) ''Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850–1898'' (= Studies in History. New Series). Woodbridge.
External links
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Grade II listed hospital buildings
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Hackney
Dalston
Health in the London Borough of Hackney