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The Royal London Hospital , Whitechapel , London, is a large teaching hospital in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust . It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and specialist tertiary care services for patients from across London and elsewhere. The current hospital building, opened in February 2012, has 845 beds and 34 wards.
The hospital was founded in September 1740 and was originally named the London Infirmary . The name changed to the London Hospital in 1748 and, in 1990, to the Royal London Hospital . The first patients were treated at a house in Featherstone Street, Moorfields. In May 1741, the hospital moved to Prescot Street and remained there until 1757 when it moved to its current location on the south side of Whitechapel Road , Whitechapel . The hospital's roof-top helipad is the London's Air Ambulance operating base.
The hospital was home to The Elephant Man , Joseph Merrick , who did not receive a burial when he died in 1890; instead, almost all sections of his body were preserved for study, both skeleton and soft tissue. His body was dissected and plaster casts of Merrick's head and limbs were made. Skin samples were taken and and his skeleton was mounted. The... skeleton is included in the pathology collection of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Merrick's mounted skeleton is not on public display but kept in a glass case in a private room at the university and can be viewed by medical students and professionals by appointment "[to] allow medical students to view and understand the physical deformities resulting from Joseph Merrick's condition."
IMAGES:
• Merrick, carte de visite photo, c. 1889
• Merrick photographed in 1888.
• Merrick photographed in 1889, the year before his death.
• Skeleton of Joseph Merrick
#iwasthere in 1981 when I interviewed for medical school. [I was supposed to become a doctor, despite my reluctance, but that's another story]. All interviewees were asked to arrive at 2:00 pm. Those of us, who were to be interviewed later, were given a tour which included the hospital's Pathology Collection/Museum where The Elephant Man's skeleton was displayed, at the time.
The hospital was founded in September 1740 and was originally named the London Infirmary . The name changed to the London Hospital in 1748 and, in 1990, to the Royal London Hospital . The first patients were treated at a house in Featherstone Street, Moorfields. In May 1741, the hospital moved to Prescot Street and remained there until 1757 when it moved to its current location on the south side of Whitechapel Road , Whitechapel . The hospital's roof-top helipad is the London's Air Ambulance operating base.
The hospital was home to The Elephant Man , Joseph Merrick , who did not receive a burial when he died in 1890; instead, almost all sections of his body were preserved for study, both skeleton and soft tissue. His body was dissected and plaster casts of Merrick's head and limbs were made. Skin samples were taken and and his skeleton was mounted. The... skeleton is included in the pathology collection of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Merrick's mounted skeleton is not on public display but kept in a glass case in a private room at the university and can be viewed by medical students and professionals by appointment "[to] allow medical students to view and understand the physical deformities resulting from Joseph Merrick's condition."
IMAGES:
• Merrick, carte de visite photo, c. 1889
• Merrick photographed in 1888.
• Merrick photographed in 1889, the year before his death.
• Skeleton of Joseph Merrick
#iwasthere in 1981 when I interviewed for medical school. [I was supposed to become a doctor, despite my reluctance, but that's another story]. All interviewees were asked to arrive at 2:00 pm. Those of us, who were to be interviewed later, were given a tour which included the hospital's Pathology Collection/Museum where The Elephant Man's skeleton was displayed, at the time.
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