Hospital for Tropical Diseases

HTD

Hospital for Tropical Diseases

1924-1947

These records comprise a House Visitors' book and two nursing registers.

The records are arranged as indicated in the scope and content.

<p>The archives of the Albert Dock Hospital are held at the Royal London Hospital Archives and elsewhere. Other related collections are the records of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, held at the LSHTM, and of the Seamen's Hospital Society, which contain some records relating to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases up to the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948.</p>

English

3 Volumes

2002/15

These records were kept in the office of the Fundraising and Marketing Manager at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Mortimer Market, Tottenham Court Road, from where they were transferred to the archives.

The Seamen's Hospital Society founded a hospital ship in 1821 moored in Greenwich. This was succeeded by two further ships, before the hospital moved on land into the Infirmary at Greenwich in 1870. A branch hospital, Albert Dock Hospital, opened in 1890 in East London and the London School of Tropical Medicine was founded there in 1899.

The London School of Tropical Medicine moved away from the Albert Dock Hospital to Endsleigh Gardens in Bloomsbury in 1920, and a new hospital opened up along with it, the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. The Albert Dock Hospital remained where it was until 1991.

The London School of Tropical Medicine separated from the hospital in 1929, when it merged with the new School of Hygiene in Keppel Street to form the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases stayed at Endsleigh Gardens until 1939, when the building was evacuated on the outbreak of war. It then suffered bomb damage during the war and was condemned.

The Hospital reopened in Devonshire Street near Regents Park in 1944, and then moved to St. Pancras in 1951, to what had been a workhouse infirmary under the Board of Guardians. It was part of Bloomsbury Health Authority from 1982 until 1993, when it became part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. In 1999, the St. Pancras building was closed. The Patrick Manson Unit, an infectious diseases unit, was established in the University College Hospital building on Grafton Way to accommodate inpatients, while a travel clinic, along with outpatients, parasitology and administrative offices, opened in the Mortimer Market Centre off Tottenham Court Road.