The Western Hospital
The Western Hospital, originally the Fulham Hospital, was a hospital for smallpox established in Fulham, London, in 1877.
History
Location of the hospital, adjacent to the railway line. The hospital is in the middle of the map. . Detail from Charles Booth's 1889 descriptive map of London.
The hospital was established as the Fulham Hospital in Fulham, London, in 1877. It became the Western Fever Hospital in 1885 (soon after the 1884 establishment of nearby Fulham Parish Infirmary, later renamed Fulham Hospital), and additional fever blocks were built in the early 1890s.
It joined the National Health Service under the management of the South West Metropolitan Regional Health Board in 1948. It closed in 1979 and the hospital was subsequently demolished.
