StorageSite | UCL Institute of Neurology |
Description | Set of ten cards containing reproduced photographs: Hospital exterior; Entrance Hall; a ward; Outpatients; group photograph of nursing staff; Chapel; Exercise Ward; Operating Theatre; Lonsdale House, Poynders Road, Clapham Park; and Convalescent Home, East Finchley. Cover printed with words 'National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic'.
[Keywords: Chapel, Lonsdale House, Convalescent Home at East Finchley, Front Hall and Stairs, Operating Theatre, Outpatients, Fundraising and Publicity] |
AdminHistory | Lonsdale House was placed under the administration of the National Hospital in 1918 by the Ministry of Pensions for the treatment of incurably paralysed servicemen. It closed in 1936. |