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South London Hospital for Women and Children

  • Corporate body
  • 1912-1984

Founded by Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874-1934) and Maud Chadburn (1868-1957), surgeons at the New Hospital for Women, in 1912 as a general hospital for women and providing training for women. The hospital was officially opened in 1916.

Only women and children were admitted, and the whole staff, with the exception of the engineer and the gardener, were women. A new building nearby was purchased and opened in 1924, an out-patients department on the same site added in 1927, a new wing opened in 1929 and a new X-ray department opened in 1932. The Second World War postponed further expansion. The hospital joined the Emergency Medical Service, and admitted war casualties, including male patients. Nurses' Home was opened in 1945. A country annex near Crawley, was opened in 1948, and closed in 1970.

In 1948, the hospital joined the NHS under the Lambeth Group Hospital Management Committee, part of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1964 it came under the South West London Group Hospital Management Committee, and in 1974 it became part of the Wandsworth and East Merton (Teaching) District Health Authority, part of the South West Thames Regional Health Authority. In 1982, it came under the Wandsworth District Health Authority, which closed it in 1984.