Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital

This article is about the origin of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. For the first venereal disease clinic, see London Lock Hospital.

The Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital was a hospital provided by the Seamen's Hospital Society for the care of ex-members of the Merchant navy, the fishing fleets and their dependents.

Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital
Seamen's Hospital Society
Seamen's Hospital
Location within Greenwich
Geography
Location	Greenwich Hospital site then Euston site, London, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′43″N 0°02′16″E
Organisation
Care system	NHS England
Type	General
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
History
Opened	1890
Closed	1993
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

It was opened in 1890 as a branch of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. The London School of Tropical Medicine was established here in October 1899, by Sir Patrick Manson with assistance from the British Secretary of State for the Colonies (Joseph Chamberlain).^[1] Together with the Hospital for Tropical Diseases they moved to Euston in February 1920.^[2]

The Hospital was relocated to a new site on nearby Alnwick Road (east of Felsted Road) in 1937-1938 and became part of Newham Health District under the City and East London Area Health Authority (Teaching) in 1974 and was converted from acute to orthopaedic use. It came under the direct control of Newham Health Authority in 1981 and subsequently became a homeward bound mental handicap unit which closed in 1993. The hospital buildings were also demolished in 1993 except for one range which retains its 1930s brown brick elevations and central rendered pediment, now converted to residential use.^[1]

See also

• Royal Albert Dock
• Royal Hamadryad Hospital

References

1. Cook GC, Webb AJ (2001). "The Albert Dock Hospital, London: the original site (in 1899) of Tropical Medicine as a new discipline". Acta Trop. 79 (3): 249–55. doi:10.1016/S0001-706X(01)00127-9. PMID 11412810.
2. Archives in London and the M25 area (AIM25 Archived 10 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine) Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital Archived 25 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Pre-Construct Archaeology report on the site's Bronze Age findings