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Messrs, Young & Bainbridge

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Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1869. Brewery and pub company. Purchased from the Trittons by Charles Allen Young and Anthony Fothergill Bainbridge in 1831.

Alexandra Hotel Company

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Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1863. Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1863. The Alexandra Hotel opened in 1864 on Hyde Park Corner and is thought to have been designed by Francis E. H. Fowler. In 1941, a bomb exploded in the hotel, causing 24 deaths and 26 serious injuries. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1954.

Messrs J. Barker & Co.

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Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1881. Department store on Kensington High Street. It began as a small drapery business in 1870 and grew rapidly into a large and well-known department store.

Messrs Bass & Co.

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Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1871. Brewery established in 1777. The company exported bottled beer around the world and by 1877, it was the largest brewery in the world with an annual output of one million barrels.

Ancient Order of Foresters, North Wilts District

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Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1878. A local branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters, a friendly society for the protection of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking. The society was formed in August 1834 in Rochdale with over 300 branches. Each local branch is a 'court'

St. Mark’s College Chapel

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Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1886. The Chapel was built in 1841 by architect Edward Blore for St Mark's College, Chelsea which had been established by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education.

Kingston Hospital

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  • 1844-

Initially constructed as a workhouse infirmary, begun in 1843 and expanded in 1868 and again in 1894, with bed numbers increasing from 50 to 300. In 1898 a new purpose-built nurses' home was added. In 1902 it was separated from the workhouse and became Kingston Infirmary. Until 1912 there was only a single full-time doctor on the staff.

During the First World War, the infirmary was used to treat injured servicemen, and in 1920 it was renamed the Kingston and District Hospital, the word 'infirmary' having become too associated with the stigma of the Poor Law. A larger nurses' home was built in 1926 and expansion continued during the 1930s, after the Board of Guardians that had previously administered the hospital was replaced with a Public Assistance Committee under the Local Government Act 1929.

Plans to rebuild the hospital were disrupted by the Second World War, during which the outpatients department was bombed. In 1948 the hospital joined the NHS under the control of the Kingston and Long Grove Hospital Management Committee, part of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.

Following the reorganisation of the NHS in 1974, the hospital came under the control of the Kingston and Richmond (later Kingston and Esher) District Health Authority, part of the South West Thames Regional Health Authority. In 1991, it formed the Kingston Hospital NHS Trust.

Horton Hospital

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  • 1902-1997

Opened in 1902 as the Horton Asylum, the second in the 'Epsom cluster' built by the London County Council. It was an exact replica of the Bexley Asylum and had 2000 beds. During both world wars it was temporarily turned into a war hospital, treating wounded servicemen and air-raid casualties.

In 1948 the hospital joined the NHS under the control of the Horton Hospital Medical Committee, part of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Under the new system it received patients from the London boroughs of Wimbledon, St Marylebone, Paddington, Holborn, Hampstead, and part of the City of Westminster.

During the 1950s-1960s it hosted trainee nurses from St George's on placements to gain psychiatric experience.

Pathology Museum

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  • 1843-

St George’s Pathology Museum was established in 1843, when Sir Benjamin Brodie presented his pathological specimen collection to St George’s in 1843, and during the 1840s Robert Keate, Caesar Hawkins and Robert Lee added further specimens in the collections.

Prescott Hewett was appointed the first curator, and he also introduced the practice of keeping post mortem books. The curator of the museum was also responsible for conducting post mortem examinations together with the assistant curator, and the post mortem casebooks frequently refer to pathological specimens preserved in the museum. Specimens were regularly obtained from post mortem examinations or during surgery at the hospital, and the museum has continued to be an integral part of teaching at St George's.

Population Health Research Institute, SGUL

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Research in the Institute focuses on chronic diseases and on the prevention of disease through primary care (general practice) and through changes to personal lifestyle or to the environment. Expanding areas of work include studies of eye conditions and congenital abnormalities and the evaluation of health care, particularly in relation to mental health.

Research carried out by the Institute in 2014 on the effects of parental smoking on the respiratory health of children resulted in a Westminster Bill to ban smoking in cars when children are present. The law was changed a year later.

Grove Fever Hospital

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  • 1899-1958

Opened in 1899 in Tooting Grove, opposite the entrance to the Fountain Hospital. During the First World War it became the Grove Military Hospital, and parts of the hospital were designated for infectious diseases, tuberculosis and dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases. It became a fever hospital again in 1920, and was taken over by LCC in 1930.

Joseph Bramhall Ellison, a physician at the hospital, discovered in 1932 that giving Vitamin A to children with measles reduced their mortality rates drastically.

During the Second World War the hospital admitted civilian air-raid casalties, but several ward blocks were damaged by bombs. The hospital joined the NHS in 1948 under the control of the Wandsworth Hospital Group as the Grove Hospital.

The site was designated for St George's Hospital, and patients from St George's began to be admitted in 1951; staff and patients from St James' Hospital, Balham were also temporarily transferred to the hospital. St George's Hospital took over administrative control of the Grove Hospital in 1954, and it became the Tooting branch of St George's Hospital. Many of the original buildings were demolished in the 1970s.

The School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St George's Hospital

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  • 1827-1863

Established by a former student of St George’s, Samuel Armstrong Lane after being rejected from the post of assistant surgeon at St George’s Hospital in 1834. The school was housed at the back of Lane’s house on 1 Grosvenor Place, near St George’s Hospital on Hyde Park Corner, and soon became known as the School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St George’s Hospital. The school was in competition with the Kinnerton Street School, formally established in 1836, which became the official medical school for St George’s; pupils at the hospital could attend either of these schools, as well as a number of other anatomical schools. Lane became senior surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital soon after its establishment in 1852, and Lane transferred his pathological and anatomical collections to the new school at St Mary’s Hospital. Lane’s school closed down in 1863.

Dean Street School of Medicine

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  • 1834-

Established as a private medical school in 1834, the Dean Street School of Medicine was one of the schools pupils at St George’s Hospital were expected to attend for further lectures. The others, prior to the establishment of the Kinnerton Street School of Medicine, which eventually became St George’s Hospital Medical School, included the Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, the School of Medicine and Anatomy adjoining St George’s Hospital or Lane’s School of Medicine, and Joshua Brooke’s school of anatomy on Great Marlborough Street. Although teaching at the school was stopped in 1847, the school reopened in 1849. The teaching of pre-clinical subjects ended at Westminster in 1905 and was moved to King’s College. A new medical school opened in 1938, and moved again in 1966 to Page Street, Westminster. It merged with Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1984 and became known as the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, moving in 1993 with the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to Fulham Road, and becoming part of the Imperial College School of Medicine on its formation in 1997.

The Cottage

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'The Cottage' is the popular name for the resident house physicians and surgeons at St George's Hospital.

At Hyde Park Corner, the residence was located on the fifth and sixth floors at No 1 Knightsbridge. The house physicians and surgeons were unpaid, but received free board and lodging; they were on emergency duty for one 3-day and one 4-day period every four weeks.

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