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However, by the turn of the century, it was suggested that St George’s should be rebuilt yet again, but away from its present site. Unfortunately, the intervention of two world wars put pay to any further development plans at this time, but at the end of the 1940s the debate began again in earnest. In [...]
The Medical School was established 1834 in Kinnerton Street and was incorporated into the hospital in 1868. The Medical School was built in the south-west corner of the hospital site in Hyde Park, with the main entrance in Knightsbridge and the back entrance in Governor Crescent Mews.
By 1859, the bed situation was critical again, so an attic floor was added. However, this did not offer much relief and so a new convalescent hospital, Atkinson Morley’s, was opened in Wimbledon, which left more beds at St George’s for Acute patients.
However, by the 1800s the hospital was falling into disrepair. Funds were raised to build a new 350-bed hospital and a competition was held for its design which was won by William Wilkins. The old Lanesborough House had to be demolished to make way for the new premises; building began in 1827, and the new [...]
The hospital was gradually extended, and by 1744, it had 15 wards and more than 250 patients.
In 1733, St George’s Hospital was opened in Lanesborough House at Hyde Park Corner, and the institution has been training medical students since then. Formal registration of apprentice doctors started in 1751. Lanesborough House had originally been built in 1719 by the 2nd Viscount Lanesborough, in what was then open countryside at the site of [...]
