Hospital for Women

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Occupation Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
She also participated with her husband in local good works. At Christmas 1819 she was recorded as giving a cloak and a good pair of blankets to every poor family in Kimpton parish, and...

Timeline

1842
Accoucheur Protheroe Smith wrote a circular entitled Medical Testimony on the Expediency of Establishing a Hospital for the Diseases of Women; it was established the following year.
25 January 1844
The first patients were admitted to the Hospital for the Diseases of Women in Red Lion Square, London.
1845
The Hospital for the Diseases of Women became the Hospital for Women.
Late 1860s
The Hospital for Women in Soho Square admitted patients for an average of ninety-two days.
July 1869
The Hospital for Women in Soho Square introduced the first pay block wing in the United Kingdom.
1885
Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square.

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