London Fever Hospital

The London Fever Hospital was a voluntary hospital financed from public donations in Liverpool Road in London. It was one of the first fever hospitals in the country.

London Fever Hospital
London Fever Hospital
Location within Islington
Geography
Location	Islington, London, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51.5368°N 0.1064°W
Organisation
Care system	NHS England
History
Opened	1802
Closed	1975
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

History

19th century plan of the hospital

Originally established with 15 beds in 1802 in Gray's Inn Road, it moved in 1815 to the west wing of the Smallpox Hospital at Battle Bridge where it had 120 beds.[1]

After the Northern Railway bought the original site for Kings Cross station the compensation money paid enabled the charity to commission a new Hospital on Kettle Field, a 4-acre site in Liverpool Road, Islington with 200 beds.[1] The new hospital, which was designed by Charles Fowler, opened in 1848.[2] By 1924 it had about 150 beds.[3] A new wing was opened by the Duchess of York in 1928 and a new isolation block was opened by the Duke of Kent in 1938.[1]

In 1948, the hospital joined the National Health Service under the same management as the Royal Free Hospital.[1] After services had been transferred to the Royal Free Hospital, the hospital closed in 1975.[1]

See also

• Grove Fever Hospital

References

1. "Royal Free Hospital (Liverpool Road Branch)". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
2. "The History and Redevelopment of the Royal Free Hospital Site in Islington". Local History. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
3. "The London Fever Hospital". The Spectator. 12 January 1924. p. 14. Retrieved 6 July 2018.

Further reading

• The London Fever Hospital. Lancet, 1848, ii, p 483
• The London Encyclopaedia; Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert. Macmillan 1995. ISBN 978-0-333-57688-5, p 476, 692

External links

• NHS History: Fever Hospitals