German Hospital, Dalston
The German Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Dalston, London, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°32′48″N 0°04′00″W / 51.5467°N 0.0668°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS England |
History | |
Opened | 1845 |
Closed | 1987 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The German Hospital, Dalston, was a hospital in Dalston, East London.
History
The hospital was established in 1845 to offer free treatment to London’s then large German-speaking community which had a significant presence in the East End.[1]
The hospital’s German speaking staff remained on site during the
grade II listed.[2]
References
- ^ Walford, Edward (1873). Old and new London. Volume V. London: Cassell Petter and Galpin. p. 530.
- ^ a b c "German Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
Further reading
- McKellar, Elizabeth (1991), The German Hospital Hackney. A Social and Architectural History 1847–1987. London.
- Specht, Maureen (2nd edition 1997), The German Hospital in London and the Community it served 1845 to 1948. Anglo-German Family History Society Publications.
- Swinbank, Christiane (2007) Medicine, Philanthropy and Religion. Selective Intercultural Transfers at the German Hospital in London, 1845–1914. In: Stefan Manz, Margit Schulte Beerbühl, John R. Davis (Ed.): Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain 1660–1914 (Prince Albert Research Publications 3). Munich, pp. 119–130.
- Waddington, Keir (2000) Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850–1898 (= Studies in History. New Series). Woodbridge.
External links
- Media related to German Hospital, Dalston at Wikimedia Commons