New Cross Hospital was a hospital in the New Cross district of south east London, open from 1877 until around 1991.
| New Cross Hospital, Deptford | |
|---|---|
 New Cross Hospital, Deptford | |
  Shown in Lewisham | |
| Geography | |
| Location | New Cross, London, England |
| Coordinates | 51°28′45″N 0°03′06″W / 51.4791°N 0.0517°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| History | |
| Opened | 1877 |
| Closed | 1991 |
History edit
The hospital was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB) on 17 March 1877 as Deptford Hospital. Its purpose at that time was as a fever hospital treating patients suffering from smallpox, of which there was an epidemic at the time. It was one five fever hospitals - the others were in Fulham, Hampstead (site now occupied by the Royal Free Hospital), Homerton (site of Homerton University Hospital) and Stockwell (now Lambeth Hospital) - forming a ring around central London, and shared the same architects as the Fulham hospital (J Walker and W Crickman).[1]
In 1885, its name was changed to the South Eastern Fever Hospital. The hospital was expanded between 1902 and 1906.[2] In 1908, the facilities included 488 beds and its site covered an area of 10 acres (4.0 ha).[3] It was transferred from the MAB to control by London County Council in 1930 and continued to be a fever hospital until 1941.[1]
It was given the name New Cross General Hospital around 1949, soon after the creation of the National Health Service (NHS), and after the NHS closed it for a time it re-opened in 1952 as a satellite for Guy's Hospital. By 1982, it comprised 269 beds and was mainly used by geriatric patients.[2] It closed as a hospital around 1991,[4][5][a] but southern parts of the site to the north of Wardalls Grove remained in NHS use until at least 2004.[1]
Notable people edit
Notable people connected with the hospital included:
- James Niven, physician at the hospital[6]
References edit
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c "The South Eastern Fever Hospital, Deptford". The Workhouse: Story of an institution. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ a b c Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben; Keay, Julia; Keay, John (2008). Weinreb, Ben (ed.). The London Encyclopaedia (Revised ed.). Pan Macmillan. p. 578. ISBN 978-1-40504-924-5.
- ^ Kerr, Matthew Newsom (2017). Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London. Springer. p. 4. ISBN 978-3-31965-768-4.
- ^ "New Cross Hospital: Student nurse records". King's College London. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ "Details: New Cross Hospital, London". National Archives. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ Povey, W. P. (1984). "James Niven". In Elwood, Willis J.; Tuxford, A. Félicité (eds.). Some Manchester Doctors: a biographical collection to mark the 150th anniversary of the Manchester Medical Society 1834–1984. Manchester Medical Society / Manchester University Press. pp. 98–100. ISBN 9780719017544.