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Population Health Research Institute, SGUL

  • Corporate body

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.

Weir Maternity Hospital

  • Corporate body
  • 1911-1977

Opened in Grove Road, Balham in 1911, funded by the will of Benjamin Weir (d.1902). During the First World War, the hospital was taken over by the Kensington Division of the British Red Cross Society, and became the Kensington Red Cross War Hospital, part of the Third London (T.F.) General Hospital, and received patients not only from the military hospital but also directly from the battlefields abroad. It closed as a military hospital in 1919, and re-opened as a general hospital in 1920.

A new maternity hospital, the Wandsworth War Memorial Maternity Home, was built on an adjacent site by the Wandsworth Borough Council in 1931, administered by the Weir Hospital until 1934. The hospital joined the NHS in 1948, and it was combined with the Wandsworth War Memorial Maternity Home. The hospital closed as a general hospital in 1950, and the two hospitals, now known as the Weir Maternity Hospital, re-opened later that year. A premature baby unit was opened in 1951 and a new maternity unit built in the 1960s. The hospital closed in 1977 when maternity units were re-located to district general hospitals.

St James' Hospital

  • Corporate body
  • 1909-1988

Founded by the Wandsworth Board of Guardians as a poor hospital, and officially opened in 1910.

During the First World War, the hospital became an auxiliary military hospital to the First London (T.F.) General Hospital. It changed its name in 1920 to St James' Hospital, and was taken over by the LCC in 1930. It expanded in the 1930s, including new X-ray and physiotherapy departments and extensions to the Nurses' Home and Nurses Training School.

The hospital joined the NHS in 1948 under the control of the Wandsworth Group Hospital Management Committee, part of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. During building works in the 1950s, some patients were transferred to the Grove Hospital and St Benedict's Hospital. In 1974, the hospital came under the control of the Wandsworth and East Merton District Health Authority, part of the South West Thames Regional Health Authority. It amalgamated with St George's Hospital in 1980, and closed in 1988 when the new St James Wing opened at Tooting.

Marks, Herbert William J.

  • Person
  • 1854-?

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. BA 1886. MA Cantab 1890. MB.BC 1895. MD 1898. MRCS, LRCP 1895.

Surgeon in the Ear, Nose and Throat Department in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and Lewisham Hospital for Women and Children, Sydney.

He married Gertrude Muriel Pilcher in 1898.

Bolingbroke Hospital

  • Corporate body
  • 1880-2008

Opened in 1880 as the Bolingbroke Self-Supporting Hospital and House in Sickness with 30 beds and an Accident and Emergency department, catering for working classes and middle classes as a voluntary hospital, with care provided for a fee.

The hospital was rebuilt, with the first phase completed in 1901. During the First World War the hospital received military casualties from the Third London Hospital. A new wing was opened in 1927. During the Second World War, the hospital joined the Emergency Medical Service, affiliated with St Thomas' Hospital. It was damaged by bombs in 1941 and 1944.

The hospital joined the NHS in 1948, under the control of the Battersea and Putney Group Hospital Management Committee, part of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. New X-ray department was opened in 1957, and a new Coronary Care Unit in 1967. In 1974, the hospital came under the control of the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Area Health Authority, part of the South West Thames Regional Health Authority. The Accident and Emergency department was closed in 1974.

In the 1980s, the hospital began to focus on services for older people. In 1993, the hospital became part of the newly formed St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. In-patients were transferred from the hospital in 2005 due to fire safety concerns, and the hospital became a community hospital with out-patient clinics and healthcare services. The hospital closed in 2007, and the clinical services were transferred to St John's Therapy Centre.

Dean Street School of Medicine

  • Corporate body
  • 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.

Angues, Janet M.

  • Person
  • ?

One of the first female students at St George's in 1918.

Babington, George Gisborne

  • Person
  • 1795-1856

Born in Leicestershire.

Assistant surgeon at St George's Hospital 1829-1830, surgeon 1830-1843. Surgeon at London Lock Hospital. Member of the Council at the Royal College of Surgeons 1836-1845, Hunterian Orator. Specialised in syphilitic diseases. Published on ulcers, sloughing sores and sexually transmitted diseases.

Married Sarah Anne Pearson of Golden Square in 1817. Died 1 Jan 1856 at home, 13 Queen's Gardens, Hyde Park.

Bagshawe, Frederic

  • Person
  • 1834-1912

Born in Lancashire. Educated at Rossall and Uppingham. Studied arts at St John's College, Cambridge; graduated 1857.

Studied medicine at Addenbrook's Hospital and St George's Hospital Medical School; MB 1863.

Held junior appointments at the Hospital for Sick Children. Physician to the Western General Dispensary. Spent several winters in southern France due to ill health, with a seasonal practice at St Leonards. Assistant physician to the Hastings, St Leonards and East Sussex Hospital 1871, physician 1882, consulting physician 1907.

Married Frances Boss in 1859 and in 1870 Emily Dickinson, sister of Dr W. Howship Dickinson. Died 2 Nov 1912.

Baillie, Matthew

  • Person
  • 1761-1823

Born in Lanarkshire 27 Oct 1761, the son of Rev James Baillie (subsequently professor of divinity at the University of Glasgow) and Dorothea Hunter, sister of William and John Hunter. His sister was poet Joanna Baillie. Educated at Hamilton. Student at University of Glasgow and Balliol College, University of Oxford from 1779. Graduated AB 1783, AM 1786, MB 1786, MD 1789.

Baillie spent his holidays in London staying with his uncle William Hunter, and studied anatomy at St George's under his uncle John Hunter, as well as assisting him on his lectures and demonstrations and supervised students making dissections. On the death of William Hunter, Baillie inherited £5,000, Hunter's house on Great Windmill Street and the use of Hunter's museum until 30 years from Hunter's death, as well as a small estate in Scotland, which he gave to John Hunter. Baillie lectured at the school from 1783-84 to 1799 or 1803.

He was appointed physician at St George's Hospital in 1787. Candidate of the Royal College of Physicians 1789, fellow 1790; censor in 1791 and 1796, elect 1809. Honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh 1809. Fellow of the Royal Society. Baillie succeeded his friends David Pitcairn and Dr Warren to practice, which grew so rapidly that he resigned his appointment at St George's as well as giving up on teaching anatomy, devoting himself to his medical practice. Appointed physician extraordinary to George III and in 1814 physician in ordinary to Princess Charlotte. Declined baronetcy for his services to the king.

Published widely on anatomy and pathology; his 'The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body', published in 1793, is considered the first systematic study of pathology, and the first publication in English on pathology as a separate subjects. He is credited with identifying transposition of the great vessels (TGV) and situs inversus.

Married Sophia Denman, daughter of physician Thomas Denman, an alumnus of St George's. Retired to Gloucestershire, where he died 23 Sep 1823, aged 62 after briefly suffering from inflammation of the mucous membrane of the trachea. His wife Sophia died in 1845, aged 74.

Barker, William Levington

  • Person
  • ?

Born in Berkshire.

Student at St George's Hospital 1860; MRCS 1863, LRCP 1864. House surgeon 1865.

Prosector at Royal College of Surgeons. Lived in 22 Cheyne Row, Chelsea

Baldwin, Gerald Robert

  • Person
  • 1868-1942

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand in 1868, the son of Captain William Baldwin. He was educated at Dunedin High School and in Germany. After working in a solicitor's office and a bank at Dunedin, he entered the Otago Medical School at the age of twenty.

To complete his training he entered St George's Hospital Medical School in 1889 and qualified in 1893. At St George's Hospital he served as house physician and house surgeon.

He held a resident appointment at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He took the Fellowship at the end of 1894. He settled at Melbourne, Australia in 1898, buying the practice of Stephen John Burke MRCS in north Melbourne. He was for some years on the staff of St Vincent's Hospital. He later practiced in other parts of Melbourne. For some years he practiced at Richmond and as a consultant in electrotherapy at Collins Street, Melbourne. He later went back to general practice at 183 Burke Road, Glen Iris, Melbourne. During the second world war he served as area medical officer for south-east Melbourne in the Royal Australian Air Force.

He married Ida M. Burke, the daughter of Stephen John Burke MRCS. He died on 8th July 1942, aged 74. He was survived by his wife, their son and three daughters.

Barnes, Edgar George

  • Person
  • 1848-?

Born in Suffolk. LSA 1869, MRCS, MB London 1870, MD 1873.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1866. Obstetric assistant at St George's Hospital 1871.

Medical officer of health in the Eye Urban District, Suffolk 1873-1913. President of the East Anglian branch of British Medical Association 1888. President of the Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society 1882. Physician at Glete House Asylum, Aspall. Surgeon Lieutenant at 2nd Suffolk Volunteers. President of the Medical Defence Union 1912-15. County director for Jersey.

Published on infectious diseases.

Retired to Jersey 1918.

Barwell, Harold Shuttleworth

  • Person
  • 1875-1959

Born in London to Richard Barwell FRCS, surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital and Mary Diana Shuttleworth.

Educated at Temple Grove and Westminster School, where he was Bishop Williams Exhibitioner, and at St George's Hospital where he held resident posts.

Deciding to specialise as a laryngologist, he became senior clinical assistant at the Golden Square Hospital. After taking the Fellowship in 1901 he was elected to the staff of the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, laryngologist to Mount Vernon Hospital, otolaryngologist surgeon to Hampstead General Hospital, and finally surgeon to St George's throat and ear department. He was President of the Laryngological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and published a textbook on Diseases of the Larynx in 1907. He continued in private practice at 39 Queen Anne Street.

He married Evelyn, daughter of James Foster Palmer MRCS in 1907 and their two sons, Alan and Claud, entered the medical profession. He died on 27 May 1959 at Fincham End, Crowthorne, Berkshire aged 83.

Bell, William A.

  • Person
  • ?

Student at St George's Hospital in 1863

Blagden, Robert

  • Person
  • 1825-1898

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1844; MRCS 1849. Surgical registrar and surgeon at St George's Hospital.

Surgeon at St James's Dispensary. Moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1861. Honorary assistant surgeon at Gloucestershire Volunteers. Moved to Minchinhampton near Stroud in 1890. Surgeon at Minchinhampton Dispensary.

Died at Teddington 22 Oct 1898, aged 73.

Bond, Edmund Delafosse

  • Person
  • 1877-1902

Educated at Clifton, Bristol. Studied natural sciences at Keble College, Oxford.

Student at St George's Hospital 1897. MA, MB Bch Oxon, MRCS, LRCP. House physician at St George's Hospital.

Died 1 Jul 1902, aged 25.

Bright, George Charles

  • Person
  • 1840-1922

The son of Richard Bright F.R.C.P, G.C. Educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, were he graduated with first-class honours in natural science in 1863.

He studied medicine at St George's Hospital, and also at Edinburgh and Paris. His first practice was in London and he held appointments at St George's Hospital as lecturer on comparative anatomy, and at St George's and St James's Dispensary as physician.

He married in 1869 and soon after left London for the continent. He practiced for a time in Dresden but in 1875 settled permanently in Cannes. One of the subjects of his research was the condition of the air in hospital wards. He died on 21st January 1922 in Cannes, survived by his wife and three daughters.

Bull, Henry Cecil Herbert

  • Person
  • 1892-?

Son of William Henry Bull, and half-brother of D.W.A. Bull, who were also students at St George's. Educated at Wellington and Caius College, Cambridge. BA 1912, MB 1918.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1911. MRCS, LRCP 1918. House physician at St George's Hospital.

Captain at King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1914-1917.

Bull, William Charles

  • Person
  • 1858-1933

Born in Cheshire, son of a Liverpool merchant. Educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Caius College, Cambridge 1877; BA 1881 in natural sciences.

House surgeon and surgical registrar at St George's Hospital from 1881, until he moved temporarily to Switzerland due to tuberculosis.

On his return to England, he worked as an assistant to Sir William Dalby and as a surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. Appointed aural surgeon and lecturer on aural surgery at St George's Hospital in 1892, following Dalby, and consulting aural surgeon in 1912.

Married Amy Flemmick of Roehampton in 1895; they had one daughter. He died 24 Feb 1933.

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