Highgate Hospital

Highgate Hospital was a name used to refer to the infirmary building which opened in 1869 on the St Pancras side of Dartmouth Park Hill in Highgate, London.

For the hospital established in 1988 in View Road, see Highgate Private Hospital.

Highgate Hospital
Highgate Wing (on the right)
Shown in Camden
Geography
LocationDartmouth Park Hill, Highgate, London.
Coordinates51.56674°N 0.14234°W / 51.56674; -0.14234
Organisation
Care systemNational Health Service
TypeGeneral
History
Opened1869
Closed1948

History

The facility has its origins in the Highgate Infirmary which was designed by Giles and Biven for the St Pancras Union Workhouse and opened in 1869.[1][2] It became known as the Central London Sick Asylum District shortly after opening.[1]

Florence Nightingale advised the architects on the design of the building and later commented that it was "by far the best of any workhouse infirmary we have"[3] and indeed “the finest metropolitan hospital”.[4]

After the hospital in St Pancras Way became the St Pancras South Infirmary, the facility on Dartmouth Park Hill became the St Pancras North Infirmary in 1893.[1] Edith Cavell worked here from 1901 to 1904.[1] It was taken over by the London County Council in 1930 and renamed Highgate Hospital.[1] It became the Highgate Wing of the Whittington Hospital on the establishment of the NHS in 1948.[1][5]

Latterly a psychiatric hospital, in 2004, the Highgate Wing was chosen by Camden and Islington Community NHS Trust as the site for Highgate Mental Health Centre and the consolidation and development of community mental health and adult social care services.[6]

References
  1. "Highgate Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  2. "St Pancras". Workhouses. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. McDonald, Lynn (2004). Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. 6. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 447. ISBN 978-0889204461.
  4. "Firing squads, hammers and spies: Trust's Tales". Camden & Islington News. 2014. p. 8.
  5. "Highgate Hospital, London". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  6. Foot, Tom (17 March 2011). "Lost souls beyond a plush entrance to Highgate Mental Health Centre". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
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