[3] It was renamed the Female Hospital when a new site in Dean Street, Soho, opened for male outpatients in 1862.

A 1375 source states that the foreman, William Cook, was sworn to prevent lepers from entering the City of London.

[9] The Lock Hospital is just one of the many alternative titles for a popular traditional British folk song, The Unfortunate Lad, a warning against venereal disease, dating from the late 18th century.

There are many variants of the song (such as St. James Infirmary Blues, Streets of Laredo, The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime, etc.)

in which the personae are variously a gambler, cowboy, soldier, sailor, or even a young girl, "cut down in their prime".