ROYAL WATERLOO HOSPITAL

<span class="wrapper"><p>For further information see H01/RW/Y/01, H01/RW/Y/05-Y/06 and John Bunnell Davis and the Universal Dispensary for Children by I.S.L. Loudon published in the British Medical Journal 5 May 1979.</p> <p>Minutes and other records of the Royal Universal Dispensary for Children 1815-1833 are in the care of the Public Record Office (class PR030/26). See Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office Vol II p.252. For the minutes of the Board of Governors of St Thomas' Hospital 1948-1974 and minutes of the Local Hospital Committee 1948-1969 see H01/ST/A/128-. Title deeds to property owned by the Royal Waterloo Hospital in Brunswick Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, and in Fitzgerald Avenue, Mortlake, have been catalogued with the title deeds to St Thomas' Hospital estates (ref: H01/ST/E/66/041-042).</p> <p>Other records held here relating to the Royal Waterloo Hospital comprise a Charity Organisation Society Enquiry Department file 1873-1936 (ref: A/FWA/C/D220/1) and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London reports and papers 1898-1966 (ref: A/KE/255/8, A/KE/530/3, A/KE/543/5, A/KE/560, A/KE/737/21 and A/KE/738/63).</p></span>

• <corpname>Royal Waterloo Hospital, 1816-1821</corpname>
• <corpname>Royal Universal Dispensary for Children, 1821-?1824</corpname>
• <corpname>Royal Universal Infirmary for Children, ?1824-1843</corpname>
• <corpname>Royal Infirmary for Children, 1843-1852</corpname>
• <corpname>Royal Infirmary for Children and Women, 1852-1875</corpname>
• <corpname>Royal Hospital for Children and Women, 1875-1903</corpname>
• <corpname>Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women, 1903-1976</corpname>

Records transferred to the Greater London Record Office from St. Thomas' Hospital on 19 October 1967 with additional records transferred between 1971 and 1989.

H01/RW/B records were transferred to the Greater London Record Office on 13 May 1985 (Acc 2109) and 25 July 1989 (Acc 2724).

The Royal Waterloo Hospital was founded in 1816 by John Bunnell Davis as the Universal Dispensary for Children. The name was changed in 1821 to the Royal Universal Dispensary for Children. It occupied premises at St Andrew's Hill, Doctor's Commons, in the City of London. Between 1823 and 1824 a new building was erected on the corner of Waterloo Bridge Road and Stamford Street in Lambeth. It was intended to admit inpatients and consequently the institution was renamed the Royal Universal Infirmary for Children. Unfortunately John Bunnell Davis died suddenly before the new building was completed. With his death, the hospital lost some of its influential supporters and found itself heavily burdened with debt. The plan to admit inpatients had to be postponed.

The name of the institution was again altered in 1843 to the Royal Infirmary for Children and in 1852 to the Royal Infirmary for Children and Women. This second change was as a result of the receipt of an annual bequest of £450 from the Hayles Estate on condition that the hospital admitted inpatients and treated women. The first inpatients entered the hospital in 1856.

Further changes of name took place on the extension of the hospital in 1875, when the title Royal Hospital for Children and Women was adopted, and in 1903, when on the rebuilding of the hospital, the name of the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women was chosen.

In 1948 the hospital became part of the National Health Service as one of the St Thomas' Hospital Group. The hospital closed on 27 July 1976.