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Parliament passed the Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 21), long titled An Act for the Increase and Encouragement of Seamen, which established the basic rules of use and benefits for seamen, [3] and amended it the following year by the Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 23). [4]
Greenwich Hospital may refer to: Greenwich Hospital, London, which was a home for retired Royal Navy sailors 1692–1869, operated by the Greenwich Hospital charitable foundation; Greenwich District Hospital, a hospital in London from 1970 to 2001; Trinity Hospital, a group of almshouses located east of Maritime Greenwich
The hospital had its origins in St Alfege's Hospital in Greenwich which by the 1960s was in need of replacement. [1] In order to build a hospital with a large enough capacity for the requirements of the local population (up to 800 beds) on a small site (less than 8 acres), a single large building was designed - Pevsner described it as "an unusually large enterprise to be undertaken by the ...
St Alfege's Hospital was a hospital that operated in the Maze Hill area of east Greenwich in southeast London. It operated as the Greenwich Union Infirmary from 1874 to 1929. It was briefly known as the Greenwich and Deptford Hospital before becoming St Alfege's Hospital in 1931. It was then superseded by Greenwich District Hospital in 1968. [1]
The Memorial Hospital, Woolwich (sometimes also called the Greenwich Memorial Hospital) is a hospital situated on Shooter's Hill in southeast London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Today run by the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, it mainly functions as a day centre for the elderly while also offering facilities for psychiatric patients.
The Inigo Jones-designed Queen's House is in the centre of the painting with the Royal Observatory also visible on the hill in Greenwich Park. [2] It may have been produced for the art collector and British consul in Venice Joseph Smith for his residence on the Grand Canal. Canaletto also produced two other views of Greenwich Hospital.
In its 2020 fiscal year, the hospital reported 12,737 inpatient and 253,779 outpatient discharges. During the same period, the hospital emergency department had 32,534 visits. [2] Greenwich Hospital has sub-specialties that include geriatrics, oncology, orthopedics, obstetrics, pediatrics, ophthalmology and home care. [3]
The DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, was formerly known as The History of Psychiatry Section. Founded in 1958 by Dr. Eric T. Carlson, the institute is devoted to the study of the history of the mind-sciences and the preservation of resources on the history of ...