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He made his name in the later 1860s with innovative designs for workhouses and quickly extended his practice to hospitals and infirmaries in which he became one of the leading specialists in the 1890s and early 1900s, his main clients being the London guardians.
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His father, George Blagrave Snell was a shorthand writer of some note, whilst a number of his descendants were also architects, notably Alfred Walter Saxon Snell and Harry Saxon Snell (who designed Melbourne Cathedral, Australia).
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as a 'pavilion hospital' in which the separation and isolation of both patients and diseases were thought to discourage the spread of infection. Constructed of
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hospitals and other public buildings. He was the author of two significant architectural books:
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at the corners of its imposing medical and surgical wards. Snell modelled it on the
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Dubrow, Gail Lee; Goodman, Jennifer B. (16 April 2018).
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Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation
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London
University College London
Royal Institute of British Architects
David Brandon
London
James Pennethorne
Joseph Paxton
William Tite
Francis Fowke
Montrose Asylum
Holborn Union Infirmary
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Leanchoil Hospital
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Florence Nightingale
Montreal
limestone
sun porches
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
"'South Kensington' and the Science and Art Department"
cite web
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