Seafarers Hospital Society
[2] The first meeting of the society's committee of management was on 8 March 1821 and they initially provided the Seaman's Infirmary hospital ship using the ex-naval HMS Grampus at Deptford in October 1821.[3] Founding members of the management committee included Thomas Sturge, Zachary Macaulay and Captain William Young.[3] In June 1866, the Admiralty lent HMS Belleisle to the society to enable them to treat cholera patients in London.The London School of Tropical Medicine was established here in October 1899, by Sir Patrick Manson, and remained there until moving to Euston in February 1920.The HTD moved temporarily to 23 Devonshire Street in 1947, before being reestablished under the newly formed NHS in 1951 at the site of the St Pancras Hospital in Camden.
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