Middlesex Hospital

The Middlesex Hospital was a hospital in London's Fitzrovia. It was founded in 1745 and closed in December 2005.

The original site was located in Windmill Street and was named after the county of Middlesex. This was not is a hospital in the modern sense. Who fell ill in Britain at this time was usually maintained at home. Hospitals of this period were charitable institutions, where the needy were included free of charge in case of an illness, if they could show a letter of recommendation from one of the supporters. The Middlesex Hospital initially had 18 beds in 1747 was additionally added a maternity ward. 1757 pulled the Middlesex Hospital at the Mortimer Street. The foundation stone of the new building had Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland placed 1755. 1836, the hospital was officially recognized as a charitable organization. In 1854, played a role in the supply of patients during the severe cholera epidemic. Florence Nightingale, which is a small nursing home in Harley Street led to the time in which only impoverished women of the British middle classes were included, who has been released from the line this nursing home in the short term and provided voluntarily at the Middlesex Hospital cholera victims. Among the doctors who worked temporarily in the second half of the 19th century in the Middlesex Hospital, include William Henry Flower and John Whitaker Hulke.

The Middlesex Hospital was expanded over the next decades, not least because in the course of industrialization and the concomitant urbanization of the population gained hospitals in the UK in importance for overall health care. Hospitals in the modern sense developed after 1846, when the increasing diffusion of modern anesthesia allowed other forms of interventions, but also an organized and careful full-time care of the treated patients required. The renovations also include the job to the British Symbolist Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862-1927) to perform four allegorical painting for the entrance area of ​​the hospital. These four large paintings that bear the name Acts of Mercy ( acts of charity ), address the issues and illness care. They are now owned by the Wellcome Collection.

In 1924 it was decided that the hospital in need of a complete renovation. The funds of more than £ 1 million has been raised through donations to the British public. The foundation stone was laid by the Duke of York, later King George VI. On 29 May 1935 he also opened the completely remodeled building. In 1992, the Middlesex Hospital was merged with the teaching hospital of the University College London. The hospital closed in December 2005. The main building of the former hospital were sold for £ 180 million to an investor who let this tear off 2008. Former outbuilding of the hospital are now used by the University College London and the National Health Service.

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  • Former hospital in London
  • Building in the City of Westminster
  • Abgegangenes building in London
  • Built in the 1740s
  • Destroyed in the 2000s
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