3-011-404 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Hospital for Women, Soho-Square, [London], 1864. 'This hospital was instituted in 1842. Prior to its foundation no institution devoted exclusively to the reception of women and the treatment of their peculiar maladies existed anywhere, as was then ascertained by the provisional committee in an extensive correspondence with the heads of the profession in this and other countries. Last year the committee determined to enlarge the building, which has been done at a cost to the institution of £2600. Heretofore there was only accommodation for twenty-five in-patients; now the wards receive fifty. The yearly average of in-patients has been 135, and the attendance of out-patients 14,000. With the commencement of the present year the hospital was reopened...[It] is open for inspection to all who are interested in the prosperity of such a charity. The elevation next Soho-square and Frith-street is in coloured brick with Portland-stone dressings, a striking effect having been obtained principally by colour and by the depth of the reveals. The architect for the rebuilding was Mr. E. L. Bracebridge.' From "Illustrated London News", 1864.