The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick…
February 1852 CE
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient on February 14, 1852.
Founded after a long campaign by Dr. Charles West, it is the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children.
Despite opening with just ten beds, it will grow into one of the world's leading children's hospitals through the patronage of Queen Victoria, counting Charles Dickens, a personal friend of the Chief Physician Dr. West, as one of its first fundraisers.
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