The hospital was established in 1845 to offer free treatment to London’s then large German-speaking community which had a significant presence in the East End.

[1] The hospital’s German speaking staff remained on site during the First World War, but were interned during the Second World War with their places taken by British staff.

[2] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became a psychiatric hospital in 1974.

[2] The hospital, popularly known as ‘The German’, closed in 1987 and patients were transferred to Homerton Hospital.

Parts of the buildings are grade II listed.