Poplar Hospital was a medical facility opened in East India Dock Road in London, England, in 1855. It was opened under the patronage of Samuel Gurney, MP, to treat people who had suffered injuries in the docks. The premises which were leased for the hospital were originally those of the East India Dock Tavern and then subsequently the Custom House.[1]
Under Sydney Holland's chairmanship the hospital was able to expand considerably in the late nineteenth century. Holland was well known for his successful fundraising, for which he earned the nickname 'Prince of Beggars'. In a four-year period Holland raised sufficient funds to enlarge the hospital from 36 to over 100 beds, improved the nursing care, and the hospital's reputation.[2][3][4]
The hospital was repeatedly expanded to cater for more patients, only being closed in 1975.[1] It was demolished in 1982.[5]
In Illustrated London News in 1858
From the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, the British East India Company (EIC) maintained a hospital in the area known as Poplar Hospital.[6][7] The hospital had been established in March 1628 as an almshouse for its mariners.[8]
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^Gore, John (1936). Sydney Holland: Lord Knutsford, A Memoir. John Murray.
^Gore, John (23 September 2004). Wallis, Patrick (ed.). Holland, Sydney George, second Viscount Knutsford (1855–1931), hospital administrator and reformer. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33943.
^"Poplar Hospital – the first hospital for dockers – Leisure, health and housing". Port Cities. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
^Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795: With an Appendix, pp.698–699.
^Statutes at Large ...: (29 v. in 32) Statutes or the United Kingdom. (1821), pp.211–3.
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