From ST.JOHN’S WOOD to MAIDA VALE, LITTLE VENICE and on to NOTTING HILL
MAIDA VALE
LITTLE VENICE
MAIDA HILL
Elmfield Way and Woodfield Road
Site of the LOCK HOSPITAL and the PADDINGTON WORKHOUSE
had moved to 283 Harrow Road in Westbourne Grove in 1842.[3] It was renamed the Female Hospital when a new site in Dean Street, Soho, opened for male outpatients in 1862.[3] It was expanded as a result of the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act 1864 in 1867
The Lock Asylum, which had continued to occupy a wing in the Female Hospital, became known as the 'Rescue Home' in 1893. The whole facility (the Female Hospital and the Lock Asylum) became known as the London Lock Hospital and Rescue Home at that time.[7]
A maternity unit opened in 1917, followed by an ophthalmology unit and a genitourinary unit that treated venereal and non-venereal gynaecological disorders.[3] A new maternity centre opened at 283A Harrow Road in 1938.[3] During the Second World War the facility was used as a Military Isolation Hospital.[3] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 when it became an outpatients department for Paddington Hospital.[3] After it closed in 1952, the hospital was demolished and the site is now occupied by flats.
The Oxford English Dictionary states that the single word term 'lock' was used to describe a leper hospital in Southwark, where lepers were isolated and treated.[8]The sources for this usage go back to 1359. A 1375 source states that the foreman, William Cook, was sworn to prevent lepers from entering the City of London. The same source asserts that eventually the term 'lock' came to be used attributively, as in 'lock hospital'.[8]
Along the Harrow Rd.
