The Royal Chest Hospital was a hospital in

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, London. It operated from 1814 until 1954.

History

The hospital was founded by Isaac Buxton in 1814 as the Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption and other Pulmonary Diseases. At first it had only eight beds and Buxton was its only physician for the first six years of its existence. It was located in Union Street, Spitalfields, before moving to

in 1849."Isaac Buxton, 1773-1825. Founder of the Royal Chest Hospital"
by Norah Schuster in ''

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'', April 1955, pp. 16-18. It became the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest in 1859 shortly before the structure was rebuilt in 1862. It became the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in 1867 and the Royal Chest Hospital in 1919. It amalgamated with the Royal Northern Hospital and, following damage from bombing sustained during the

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, it joined the

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in 1948. It closed in 1954 and the building has since been demolished.

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