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Poplar Hospital

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Poplar Hospital was a medical facility opened in East India Dock Road in 1855. It was opened under the patronage of Samuel Gurney, MP to treat people who had suffered injuries in the docks. The premises which were leased for the hospital were originally those of the East India Dock Tavern and then subsequently the Custom House.^[1] The hospital was repeatedly expanded to cater for more patients, only being closed in 1975.^[1] It was demolished in 1982.^[2]

From the 17th to the early 19th Centuries, the British East India Company (EIC) maintained a hospital in the area known as Poplar Hospital.^[3]^[4] The hospital had been established in March 1628 as an almshouse for its mariners.^[5]

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1. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp147-153 |title=East India Dock Road, North side: Poplar Hospital, Nos 305-479 (dem.) and All Hallows' Church | British History Online |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-08-09}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConGallery.33/Poplar-Hospital-the-first-hospital-for-dockers.html |title=Poplar Hospital - the first hospital for dockers - Leisure, health and housing |publisher=Port Cities |date= |accessdate=2017-08-09}}
3. ^Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795: With an Appendix, pp.698-699.
4. ^Statutes at Large ...: (29 v. in 32) Statutes or the United Kingdom. (1821), pp.211-3.
5. ^Makepeace (2010), p.71.

References

Makepeace, Margaret (2010) The East India Company's London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858. (Boydell & Brewer). {{ISBN|9781843835851}}

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