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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...

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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.

Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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25 January 1844

The first patients were admitted to the Hospital for the Diseases of Women in Red Lion Square, London.

Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

86-7

Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

86

1845

The Hospital for the Diseases of Women became the Hospital for Women.

Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

86

Late 1860s

The Hospital for Women in Soho Square admitted patients for an average of ninety-two days.

Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

89

July 1869

The Hospital for Women in Soho Square introduced the first pay block wing in the United Kingdom.

Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

93-4

1885

Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square.

Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

92

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