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The Home for Mothers and Babies and Training School for District Midwives opened in May 1905, with the stated objectives of professionalising midwifery. The people behind it were
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of £1,500 toward building an amalgamated hospital. In 1922, the hospital's new buildings in Samuel Street, Woolwich were officially opened by
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Former buildings and structures in the Royal Borough of Greenwich
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and was placed under the jurisdiction of the Woolwich Group
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in 1944. In addition, an evacuation hospital was set up in
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British Hospital for Mothers and Babies is located in Royal Borough of Greenwich
Woolwich
Coordinates
51°29′25″N 0°03′00″E / 51.49036°N 0.05012°E / 51.49036; 0.05012
Care system
NHS England
Hospitals in England
maternity hospital
Charles Escreet
Alice Gregory
Woolwich
British Lying-In Hospital
Holborn
Lying-in
bedrest
postpartum confinement
King Edward's Hospital Fund
Queen Mary
a bombing raid
Princess Royal
Brenchley
National Health Service
Hospital Management Committee
Plumstead
"The Lying-in Hospital 1747-"
doi
10.1177/003591577206500518
PMC
1643926

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