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were appointed physicians the following year. Two houses on the north side of the hospital, known as the Albany Baths, were converted into a nurses' home (i.e. staff accommodation) in 1907; this facility was re-built between 1930 and 1933 as a modern red brick building with a mansard roof, designed
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in the early 1820s. The new building was designed by Henry Harrison and was built at a cost of about £3,000. On 22 September 1828, the minutes record that "On Friday Morning a Patient was delivered of a Son in the New Hospital and the Committee met this day in the new Hospital for the first time."
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The hospital closed in 1971 and fell into a state of dereliction. It was restored and refurbished in 2003 at a cost of £4.27 million financed in part by a grant from the Guy's and St Thomas' Charity. Since March 2013 the building has comprised part of the
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The General Lying-In Hospital was an initiative of Dr John Leake, a physician, and the site chosen was on the north side of
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With a view to expansion, the governors bought a lease of a plot of ground with 100-foot frontage on the east side of
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as the General Lying-In Hospital in 1830. A new ward and a training school for
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Hotel Waterloo. The modern elements of the hotel were nominated for the 2013
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Nurse sitting with baby in incubator at the General Lying in Hospital, 1908
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during the Second World War, but returned to Lambeth and joined the
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is an archaic term for childbirth (referring to the month-long
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was laid in August 1765 and the facility opened as the
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General Lying-in Hospital

General Lying-In Hospital is located in London Borough of Lambeth
Lambeth
Care system
NHS England
Type
Affiliated university
St Thomas' Hospital
Emergency department
Hospitals in England
maternity hospitals
Westminster Bridge Road
Lying-in
bed rest
postpartum confinement


Westminster Bridge Road
Lambeth
foundation stone
York Road, Lambeth
royal charter
midwives
Joseph Lister
consulting surgeon
Sir John Williams
Sir Francis Champneys
was evacuated
Diocesan House, St Albans

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