The Hahnemann Hospital 39 Bloomsbury Square
The Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square was established on 16.10.1850 and closed on 31.8.1852, having seen 9024 patients.
The objects of the Hahnemann Hospital were:
To relieve the poor who suffer from acute diseases by receiving them as in patients.
To give relief to out door patients.
To afford facilities to the Medical Student or Inquirer, for obtaining knowledge of the homeopathic doctrine and practice, at the bed side of the patient, by clinical lecture and by lectures in the Hahnemann School attached to the hospital.
Patients were admitted on the order of the Governor or by payment of £3 15s a month, out patients were nominated by guinea subscribers or on payment of a guinea per anum. Otherwise, William Leaf and his friends financially supported the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square.
Patrons: Chevalier Bunsen and the Earl of Wilton
President: Lord Robert Grosvenor
Vice Presidents: Thomas Roupell Everest, William Leaf, Charles Powell Leslie, James More Molyneux and David Wilson.
Trustees: William Leaf and Charles Hunt
Honorary Secretary: William Warne and John Anderson
Management Board: W T Ashurst, W T Berger, W A Case, J M Douglas, G H Flatcher, John Fowler, Jos Glover, S Hanson, Thomas Higgs, T H Johnstone, Charles Powell Leslie, John Miller, Chas Pasley, F (E?) Sandoz, W Stephenson, S Sugden, A Templeton, Major Tyndale, William Warne, A Wilkinson, S Wilson and many others.
The Staff of the Hahnemann Hospital included: James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Paul Francois Curie, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Thomas Engall, Robert Hamilton, Joseph Hands, Amos Henriques, Henry Kelsall, Joseph Laurie, Henry Victor Malan, Mathias Roth, James John Garth Wilkinson, David Wilson, George Wyld,
In 1835, William Leaf instituted a small hospital at Paul Francois Curie’s house, but due to the ‘great rush’ of patients, a larger establishment was required. The Hahnemann Hospital was founded in 1850 but it came to an end shortly afterwards because of the ‘discord of the doctors attached to it’.
However, the real reason the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square closed was because Paul Francois Curie caught typhus from a patient at this hospital and he died in 1853. The Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square closed shortly therafter, leaving the way open for the unification of the British Homeopathic Profession, which came together under the new London Homeopathic Hospital at 32 Golden Square.
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