Paddington Green Children's Hospital Explained

Paddington Green Children's Hospital
Org/Group:Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority
Location:Hampstead
Region:London
State:England
Country:UK
Coordinates:51.5209°N -0.1736°W
Healthcare:NHS England
Founded:1883
Closed:1987
Website:None
Map Type:United Kingdom London Westminster

The Paddington Green Children's Hospital was a hospital in Paddington Green, London, that existed from 1883 to 1987.[1] The former building is now grade II listed with Historic England.

History

The hospital was founded at Bell Street by Eustace Smith and T.C. Kirby as the North West London Free Dispensary for Sick Children in 1862.[1] It moved to Paddington Green in 1883 and was completely rebuilt and then reopened by the Duchess of Teck in 1895.[1] A new out-patients department opened in 1911.[1]

In November 1885, the hospital became the first London hospital to appoint a woman to a medical job in an open competition with men when Frances Helen Prideaux became house surgeon.[2] Prideaux contracted diphtheria soon after her appointment and helped her colleagues in their attempts to treat her but died one month after she had started her role.[3]

In 1923, Donald Winnicott obtained a paediatric post at the hospital and was to remain there for the next 40 years. He became a celebrated psychoanalyst and child analyst, member of the Object relations school, writer and broadcaster on the BBC.[4]

Margaret Leigh (pen name Jane Gordon) worked as a nurse in the hospital in the 1930s and 1940s and her memoir Married to Charles (1950) contains much information about the operation of the hospital in that time, especially during The Blitz.[5]

The hospital joined the National Health Service under the same management as St Mary's Hospital in 1948.[1] After services were transferred to St Mary's Hospital, it closed in 1987.[1]

Notable staff

Notable staff have included:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Paddington Green Children's Hospital. Lost Hospitals of London. 7 July 2018.
  2. Web site: Hussey . Kristin . 5 October 2018 . Life and death on the ward: the case of Helen Prideaux . 2023-03-13 . RCP Museum.
  3. Book: Brock, Claire . British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918 . 2017-02-23 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-18693-4 . 14–15 . en.
  4. Book: Brett Kahr. D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait. 31 December 1996. Karnac Books. 978-1-78049-954-3.
  5. Gordon, Jane (1950), Married to Charles, London, Heinemann
  6. Web site: Emeritus Professor John Allen Davis. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. 21 December 2017. 28 February 2017 .
  7. 4 January 1919. Leonard George Guthrie, M.D.Oxon., F.R.C.P. British Medical Journal. 1. 3027. 28–29. 0007-1447. 2340549. 10.1136/bmj.1.3027.28-b.
  8. News: Richmond, Caroline. Obituary. Frank Dudley Hart: Leading specialist in the classification and treatment of rheumatic disease. 28 June 2004. The Independent. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frank-dudley-hart-730657.html . 24 May 2022 . subscription . live.
  9. Web site: Obituary for Air Vice-Marshal Freddie Hurrell . The Telegraph. 15 October 2008. 1 January 2020.
  10. Web site: Jessop, Walter Hamilton Hylton - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. rcseng.ac.uk. 1 January 2010.
  11. News: Audrey Lees . The Times . 21 April 2006.
  12. Web site: Edith MacGregor Rome. archives.rcn.org.uk. en. 15 January 2018.
  13. Web site: George Alexander Sutherland. Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians, Munk's Roll. 1 January 2020.
  14. John Peter Mills (Sir) Tizard . Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows. 21 August 2013 . IX . 518 . 21 December 2017. Royal College of Physicians. Royal College of Physicians . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180101030024/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6350. 1 January 2018. dmy-all.
  15. Book: Brett Kahr. D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait. 31 December 1996. Karnac Books. 978-1-78049-954-3. 188.

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