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St Mary's Hospital is an
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hospital in
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, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by
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, which also operates
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,
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,
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and the Western Eye Hospital. Until 1988 the hospital ran St Mary's Hospital Medical School, part of the federal
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. In 1988 it merged with
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, and then with Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1997 to form
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.


History


Development of the hospital

The original block of St Mary's Hospital in Norfolk Place was designed by Thomas Hopper in the
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. It first opened its doors to patients in 1851, the last of the great
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s to be founded. Among St Mary's founders was the surgeon
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, a controversial figure who performed numerous clitoridectomies at the London Surgical Home, his hospital for women, and who "immediately set to work to remove the clitoris whenever he had the opportunity of doing so." It was at St Mary's Hospital that C.R. Alder Wright first synthesized
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in 1874. The Clarence Memorial Wing, designed by Sir William Emerson and built with its main frontage on Praed Street, opened in 1904. It was at the hospital that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. Fleming's laboratory has been restored and incorporated into a museum about the discovery and his life and work. The private Lindo wing, where there have been royal births and several celebrity births, opened in November 1937; it was financed by businessman and hospital board member Frank Charles Lindo, who made a large donation before his death in 1938. Following the 1944 publication of a report by Sir
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advocating a minimum size for teaching hospitals, and following the formation of the
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in the 1948, several local hospitals became affiliated to St Mary's Hospital. These included Paddington General Hospital, the
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and the Western Eye Hospital. In the 1950s, Felix Eastcott, a consultant surgeon and deputy director of the surgical unit at St Mary's Hospital, carried out pioneering work on
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designed to reduce the risk of stroke. Paddington General Hospital closed and relocated services to the Paddington basin site in November 1986 and, in common with the other London teaching hospitals who lost their independence at that time, the medical school of St Mary's Hospital merged with that of
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in 1988. In 1987 as part of on-going rationalisation within the NHS, the hundred year old
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was closed down, the
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s sold off and its services absorbed into St Mary's.


Notable births

;Royal family: * Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (born 1974) son of the
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*
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(born 1977) daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester *
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(born 1977)son of
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*
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(born 1979)son of
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and
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*
Lady Rose Gilman Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is a member of the British royal family. He is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, as wel ...
(born 1980) daughter of
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*
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(born 1981)daughter of the Princess Royal and Mark Phillips * Lady Gabriella Kingston (born 1981) daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent *
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(born 1982)first son of Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales * Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (born 1983)daughter of the King Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark. *
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(born 1984) second son of Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales *
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(born 1986) son of King Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark *
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(born 1988) son of
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and
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. *
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(born 2013) first son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales *
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(born 2015) daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales *
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(born 2018) – second son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales ;Other notable births *
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* Elvis Costello (born 1954) British musician * Kiefer Sutherland (born 1966) Canadian actor *
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(born 1978)son of the
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and Duchess of Wellington *
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(born 1990)daughter of the 9th Duke of Wellington *
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(born 1994)
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to the Spencer earldom, nephew of Diana, Princess of Wales and first cousin of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex *
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Notable staff and alumni

* Arthur Cecil Alport physician who first identified
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in 1927 * Roger Bannister first man to run a
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, professor of neurology *
Aleck Bourne Aleck William Bourne (4 June 1886 – 30 December 1974) was a prominent British gynaecologist and writer, known for his 1938 trial, a landmark case, in which he was prosecuted for performing a termination of pregnancy on a 14-year-old rape victim. ...
gynaecologist best known for his 1938 trial, a landmark case in abortion law * William Broadbent 19th-century neurologist and cardiologist *
John Scott Burdon-Sanderson Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet, FRS, HFRSE D.Sc. (21 December 182823 November 1905) was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne, and a member of a well known Northumbrian family. Biography He was born at Jesmond ...
Regius Professor of
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at the
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and Royal Medal winner * J. Jackson Clarke pathologist, surgeon, and cancer researcher *
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physician and bacteriologist, MBBS in 1906, who, in 1935, showed
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was effective against
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of puerperal fever *
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Health Minister * Alexander Fleming awarded the
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for discovery of penicillin *
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England rugby captain * John Henry clinical
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who did crucial work on poisoning and drug overdose * Amanda Herbert
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and
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, editor of ''Cytopathology'' from 2008 to 2014 and co-editor of ''Eurocytology.eu'' * Albert Neuberger professor of chemical
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* Tom Oppé professor of paediatrics *
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international rugby player and cricketer * William Stanley Peart professor of medicine, isolated and determined the structure of
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*
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President of the British Medical Association and the
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and Governor-General of New Zealand * Rodney Robert Porter awarded the
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for research on the chemical structure of antibodies *
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pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern forensic medicine *
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* Augustus Waller whose research led to the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG) * J. P. R. Williams international rugby player *
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advanced
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through the use of autogenous vaccines * Charles Romley Alder Wright first person to synthesize heroin in 1874 *
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later to be the Plague fighter of China


Associations

St Mary's Hospital is located beside
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, the principal station of the Great Western Railway and its successors. In celebration of the association, a British Rail Class 43 (InterCity 125) locomotive, 43142, was named ''St Mary's Hospital, Paddington'' on 4 November 1986. The locomotive is still in service but, following changes of ownership, the name has now been removed. One of the large metal nameplates was acquired by the hospital, and is now displayed in the foyer of the Cambridge Wing.


Major Trauma Centre

St Mary's Hospital is one of four major trauma centres in
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. The other three are:
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in Denmark Hill, The Royal London Hospital in
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, and St George's Hospital in
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.


COSMIC charity

COSMIC is an independent charity, supporting the work of the neonatal and paediatric intensive care services of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. The charity funds a range of specialist equipment for the units, including ventilators and patient monitoring systems for those being treated on the wards, as well as providing practical and emotional support to families.


See also

*
List of hospitals in England The following is a list of hospitals in England. For NHS trusts, see the list of NHS Trusts. East Midlands * Arnold Lodge, Leicestershire * Babington Hospital – Belper, Derbyshire *Bassetlaw District General Hospital – Worksop, Nottingha ...


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Special events commemorate ten years of the Faculty of Medicine


External links

*
St Mary's Hospital on the NHS website

Care Quality Commission inspection reports
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