History
It was founded in 1864 as a specialist skin hospital (Arthur Rook, ‘James Starting, Jonathan Hutchinson and the Blackfriars Skin Hospital’, British Journal of Dermatology vol. 99, 1978)
It no longer exists
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What was reforming about it?
It was free (although not for long)
Where in Bloomsbury
It was located at 227 Gray’s Inn Road, according to Dickens’s Dictionary of London, both the 1879 and 1888 editions
In the 1888 edition, he notes that it was “Formerly free, now self-supporting. For the cure of chronic skin disease. Middle-class (out) patients seen by payment on Mon. and Thurs. evenings at 6”
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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Books about it
Arthur Rook, ‘Skin Hospitals in Britain,’ Willan Library Bulletin (irregular publication issued by the British Association of Dermatologists), vol. 1 ( 976)
Archives
According to Rook, its records had disappeared from view by 1976 (Arthur Rook, ‘Skin Hospitals in Britain,’ Willan Library Bulletin (irregular publication issued by the British Association of Dermatologists), vol. 1, 1976)
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