Hospital for Tropical Diseases
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The '''Hospital for Tropical Diseases''' in [[London]] is part of the University College Hospitals London (UCLH) [[NHS Trust]], and associated with [[University College London]]. It is the only [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[NHS]] hospital dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of [[tropical disease]]s and travel-related [[infection]]s.
It was founded on [[8 March]] [[1821]] on board an ex-naval ship and moved onto dry land as the [[Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital]] in [[1870]] as part of the Royal [[Greenwich Hospital (London)|Greenwich Hospital]]. The management of infectious disease moved in [[1919]] near to Euston Square, in central [[London]], still under the [[Seamen's Hospital Society]]. The general in-patient wards at Greenwich continued until that hospital's closure in [[1986]] with special services for seamen and their families then provided by the 'Dreadnought Unit' at [[St Thomas's Hospital]] in [[Lambeth]].
After several moves during the Second World War, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases was reestablished under the newly formed [[NHS]] in [[1951]] at the site of the [[St Pancras Hospital]]. Finally it moved in [[1998]] in to new purpose built premises within UCLH.
==See also==
*[[List of hospitals in the UK]]
==References==
* {{cite journal | author=Cook GC, Webb AJ | title=The Albert Dock Hospital, London: the original site (in 1899) of Tropical Medicine as a new discipline | journal=Acta Trop | year=2001 | pages=249–55 | volume=79 | issue=3 | pmid=11412810 | doi=10.1016/S0001-706X(01)00127-9}}
* {{cite web |title=Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3973&inst_id=23 |publisher=Archives in London and the M25 area ([http://www.aim25.ac.uk/index.stm AIM25])}}
==External links==
*[http://www.thehtd.org The Hospital for Tropical Diseases]
* [http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.122/The-Dreadnought-Seamens-hospital.html The Dreadnought Seamen's hospital] history by [http://www.portcities.org.uk PortCities]
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