Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- Hospital for Tropical Diseases
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London is part of the University College Hospitals London (UCLH) NHS Trust, and associated with University College London. It is the only UK NHS hospital dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases and travel-related infections.
It was founded on 8 March 1821 on board an ex-naval ship and moved onto dry land as the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital in 1870 as part of the Royal Greenwich Hospital. The management of infectious disease moved in 1919 near to Euston Square, in central London, still under the Seamen's Hospital Society. The general in-patient wards at Greenwich continued until that hospital's closure in 1986 with special services for seamen and their families then provided by the 'Dreadnought Unit' at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth.
After several moves during the Second World War, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases was reestablished under the newly formed NHS in 1951 at the site of the St Pancras Hospital. Finally it moved in 1998 in to new purpose built premises within UCLH.
ee also
*List of hospitals in the UK
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External links
* [http://www.thehtd.org The Hospital for Tropical Diseases]
* [http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.122/The-Dreadnought-Seamens-hospital.html The Dreadnought Seamen's hospital] history by [http://www.portcities.org.uk PortCities]
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