The former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women, Euston Road, NW1
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The former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women, Euston Road, NW1
Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 8 Mar 2011
The hospital was opened in 1890 as the New Hospital for Women, and was the first purpose-built hospital devoted to the treatment of female patients by women doctors. For more info see the English Heritage website http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/people-and-places/womens-history/women-and-healthcare/elizabeth-garrett-anderson-hospital-for-women/. A biography of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, chronicling the appalling misogynism she suffered when trying to qualify as a doctor, is given on the BBC History website http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garrett_anderson_elizabeth.shtml.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.527994
Longitude
-0.129619