UCL BLOOMSBURY PROJECT

Bloomsbury Project

Bloomsbury Institutions

Medical

National Institution for Diseases of the Skin

Also known as National Free Institution for Diseases of the Skin

Not to be confused with the British Hospital for Diseases of the Skin

What was reforming about it?

It was free (although not for long)

Where in Bloomsbury

It was located at 227 Gray’s Inn Road, according to Dickens’s Dictionary of London, both the 1879 and 1888 editions

In the 1888 edition, he notes that it was “Formerly free, now self-supporting. For the cure of chronic skin disease. Middle-class (out) patients seen by payment on Mon. and Thurs. evenings at 6”

Website of current institution

It no longer exists

Books about it

Arthur Rook, ‘Skin Hospitals in Britain,’ Willan Library Bulletin (irregular publication issued by the British Association of Dermatologists), vol. 1 ( 976)

Archives

According to Rook, its records had disappeared from view by 1976 (Arthur Rook, ‘Skin Hospitals in Britain,’ Willan Library Bulletin (irregular publication issued by the British Association of Dermatologists), vol. 1, 1976)