History
It was founded some time between 1877 and 1884 (apparently several different dates are given in its Medical Directory entries) as an eye hospital (Arnold Sorsby, ‘Defunct London Eye Hospitals,’ British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 20, 1936)
It had listings in the Medical Directory only from 1885 to 1888 inclusive (Arnold Sorsby, ‘Defunct London Eye Hospitals,’ British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 20, 1936)
Its surgeons were Jabez Hogg and Warren Hastings Diamond (Arnold Sorsby, ‘Defunct London Eye Hospitals,’ British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 20, 1936)
Jabez Hogg (1817–1899) was an ophthalmic surgeon, and author on eye diseases and microscopes; he was also a Freemason (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
Hogg is listed at 6 Gower Street in the 1851 and 1856 Post Office directories and the 1860 Royal Blue Book, and then lived at 1 Bedford Square from the 1860s to the 1880s
It no longer exists
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What was reforming about it?
It was one of the new specialist hospitals which abounded in the nineteenth century, many of them in Bloomsbury
Its alternative name suggests that it might also have treated sexually-transmitted diseases, which caused both eye and skin problems
Where in Bloomsbury
It was located at 5 Hyde Street in the 1880s
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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Books about it
Arnold Sorsby, ‘Defunct London Eye Hospitals,’ British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 20, 1936
Archives
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