History
It was founded in 1850 (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says 1849) by Frederic Quin as the first of two competing homœopathic hospitals in London, the other being the Hahnemann Hospital
It was based first in Golden Square, Soho, but after its first decade moved to Bloomsbury and stayed there
It attracted royal patronage, becoming the Royal London Homœopathic Hospital in 1948
It also joined the National Health Service (NHS) and is one of only a handful of NHS homœopathic hospitals in the country
It became part of University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2002, and subsequently became the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
It continues to offer alternative and complementary medical treatments, although much of its building has now become part of Great Ormond Street Hospital
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What was reforming about it?
Homœopathic medicine was controversial
Where in Bloomsbury
In 1859 the Hospital moved from Soho to the three houses at the end of Ormond Street on the corner with Queen Square
These houses were replaced by a purpose-built hospital building in 1893–1895
Website of current institution
The Hospital is part of University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, www.uclh.nhs.uk (opens in new window)
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Books about it
Godfrey Heathcote Hamilton, Queen Square: Its Neighbourhood and its Institutions (1926)
Felix von Reiswitz, ‘The “Globulisation” of the Hospital Ward: A Case Study of the London Homœopathic Hospital 1849–1867,’ Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, vol. 26 (2007)
Peter Morrell and Sylvain Cazalet, ‘The History of the London Homœopathic Hospital,’ 1999, online at www.homeoint.org/morrell/londonhh/index.htm (opens in new window)
Archives
Some relevant records are also held in London Metropolitan Archives, including records from 1897–1929 relating to its King Edward’s Hospital Fund applications, ref. A/KE/251/6; details are available via Access to Archives (opens in new window)
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