{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox hospital | name = London Fever Hospital | image = Former London Fever Hospital, Islington - geograph.org.uk - 2450203.jpg | caption = London Fever Hospital | location = Islington | region = London | state = England | country = UK | coordinates = {{coord|51.5368|-0.1064|type:landmark_region:GB-ISL|display=inline,title}} | healthcare = NHS England | type = | beds = | founded = 1802 | closed = 1975 | website = None | pushpin_map = United Kingdom London Islington | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Islington }} The '''London Fever Hospital''' was a voluntary hospital financed from public donations in Liverpool Road in Islington, London.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morris |first1=James |title=Royal Free: The lost Liverpool Road hospital where thousands of Islington babies were born |url=https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/health/royal-free-the-lost-liverpool-road-hospital-where-thousands-of-3785630 |website=Islington Gazette |date=10 January 2018 |access-date=15 October 2020}}</ref> It was one of the first fever hospitals in the country.
==History== thumb|left|19th century plan of the hospital Originally established with 15 beds in 1802 in Gray's Inn Road, it moved in 1815 to the west wing of the Smallpox Hospital at Battle Bridge where it had 120 beds.<ref name=lost>{{cite web|title=Royal Free Hospital (Liverpool Road Branch)|url=http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/londonfever.html|website=Lost Hospitals of London|accessdate=24 August 2015}}</ref>
After the Northern Railway bought the original site for King's Cross station the compensation money paid enabled the charity to commission a new Hospital on Kettle Field, a 4-acre site in Liverpool Road, Islington with 200 beds.<ref name=lost/> The new hospital, which was designed by Charles Fowler, opened in 1848.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/islington/royalfree/|title=The History and Redevelopment of the Royal Free Hospital Site in Islington|publisher=Local History|accessdate=17 April 2020}}</ref> By 1924 it had about 150 beds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/12th-january-1924/14/the-london-fever-hospital|title=The London Fever Hospital|publisher=The Spectator|date=12 January 1924|page=14|accessdate=6 July 2018}}</ref> A new wing was opened by the Duchess of York in 1928 and a new isolation block was opened by the Duke of Kent in 1938.<ref name=lost/>
In 1948, the hospital joined the National Health Service under the same management as the Royal Free Hospital.<ref name=lost/> After services had been transferred to the Royal Free Hospital, the hospital closed in 1975.<ref name=lost/>
== Notable staff ==
* Laura Margaret Holroyde, Royal Red Cross and bar (1881-1958),<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |date=4 August 1958 |title=Obituary |journal=The Nursing Times |pages=924 |via=RCN}}</ref> Matron from about June 1921<ref>Laura Margaret Holroyde, RG15/17139, 30; The General Record Office, The England and Wales Census 1921 for Moreton, Birkenhead; The National Archives, Kew [Available at: www.findmypast.co.uk, accessed on 8 January 2022].</ref><ref>Holroyde, Laura Margaret, Register of Nurses, General Part 1925, 777; The General Nursing Council for England and Wales; The Nursing Registers, 1898–1968 [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 29 October 2018]</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=15 April 1922 |title=Fever Matron's Address the Minister of Health |journal=The British Journal of Nursing |volume=68 |pages=241–242 |via=RCN}}</ref> until 1946.<ref>Holroyde Laura M., RG101/280c; 1939 England and Wales Register for Islington, London; The National Archives, Kew [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 29 October 2018]</ref><ref name=":0">Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)</ref><ref name=":1" /> Holroyde trained at The London Hospital under Matron Eva Luckes between 1909-1911.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Laura Margaret Holroyde, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/15, 138; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London </ref> She continued to work at the hospital until 1917 in various positions as a holiday sister, then night sister.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Laura Margaret Holroyde, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/3,133; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London.</ref> During that time she also completed her midwifery training.<ref name=":0" /> Prior to her appointment at the Fever Hospital she was matron of the Royal Flying Corps Hospital<ref>Matrons Report, 8 January 1917, House Committee Minutes, 1916–1918; RLHLH/A/5/55, 160; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London</ref> / Royal Air Force Hospital in Eaton Square, London.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |date=14 June 1919 |title=Royal Air Force, Royal Red Cross |journal=The British Journal of Nursing |volume=62 |pages=402}}</ref> These hospitals were part of the fledgling Royal Air Force Temporary Nursing Service (RAFNS) which was created in 1918. She was a founding member of the College of Nursing, now the Royal College of Nursing.<ref name=":1" />
==See also== *Grove Fever Hospital
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *The London Fever Hospital. Lancet, 1848, ii, p 483 *The London Encyclopaedia; Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert. Macmillan 1995. {{ISBN|978-0-333-57688-5}}, p 476, 692
==External links== *[http://www.nhshistory.net/smallpox_and_fever_hospitals.htm NHS History: Fever Hospitals]
Category:1802 establishments in England Category:Defunct hospitals in London Category:History of the London Borough of Camden Category:History of the London Borough of Islington Category:Voluntary hospitals Category:Fever hospitals