Victoria Eye Hospital | |
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Victoria Eye Hospital | |
Geography | |
Location | Eign Street, Hereford, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 52°03′24″N2°43′20″W / 52.0566°N 2.7223°W Coordinates: 52°03′24″N2°43′20″W / 52.0566°N 2.7223°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Hospital type | Eye hospital |
History | |
Founded | 1882 |
Closed | 2002 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Victoria Eye Hospital was a health facility located on Eign Street in Hereford. The main building has since been converted into apartments.
The facility was established by Francis Woodley Lindsay, a surgeon, in rented premises in Commercial Road as the Herefordshire and South Wales Eye and Ear Institution in 1882. [1] It moved to permanent premises in Eign Street as the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 1888 [1] and, after being renamed the Victoria Eye Hospital in 1923, joined the National Health Service in 1948. [2] After services transferred to the new Hereford County Hospital in 2002, [3] the Victoria Eye Hospital closed and has since been converted into apartments. [1]
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