King's College Hospital opens in London on…

April 1840 CE

King's College Hospital opens in London on April 15, 1840, in the disused St Clement Danes workhouse in Portugal Street close to Lincoln's Inn Fields and King's College London itself.

It is to be used as a training facility where medical students of King's College can practice and receive instruction from the college's own professors.

The surrounding area here is composed of overcrowded slums characterized by poverty and disease.

Within two years of opening, the hospital will be treating twelve hundred and ninety inpatients in one hundred and twenty beds, with two patients sharing a bed by no means unusual.

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