History
It was founded in 1839, according to its Medical Directory entries
In 1848 its surgeon was H. Burford Norman (educated at University College), its physician was Charles J. Hare (later Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College Hospital) and its consulting surgeon was Richard Quain, Professor of Descriptive Anatomy at University College and assistant surgeon at University College Hospital (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Arnold Sorsby, ‘Defunct London Eye Hospitals,’ British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 20, 1936)
“This institution appears only in the Directories for 1848 and 1849...It appears to have existed for 10 years” (Arnold Sorsby, ‘Defunct London Eye Hospitals,’ British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 20, 1936)
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What was reforming about it?
It was one of the new specialist hospitals which abounded in the nineteenth century, many of them in Bloomsbury
Where in Bloomsbury
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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Books about it
Arnold Sorsby, ‘Defunct London Eye Hospitals,’ British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 20 (1936)
Archives
None found
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