Key Information
Type of entity
Organisation
Authorized form of name
Lewisham Hospital, London
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Description area
History
Lewisham Hospital opened as a workhouse in 1817 and then as a hospital in 1894. It admitted cholera cases from 1867 and lunatics from 1897. It became Lewisham Hospital Group in 1948. In 1974 the Group became one of the four Health Districts in the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching). The other three Districts were King's College Hospital, Guy's, and St Thomas's. In 1982 it became Lewisham and North Southwark District Health Authority. In 1993 it became Lewisham Hospital National Health Service Trust.
Relationships area
Related entity
Thomas Guy and Lewisham School of Nursing, 1985-1991 (1985-1991)
Identifier of related entity
KCL-AF1322
Category of relationship
temporal
Type of relationship
Dates of relationship
1985
Access points area
Subjects
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
KCL-AF1208
Institution identifier
0100 KCLCA
Status
Final
Level of detail
Partial