New End Hospital

Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill established a Thyroid Clinic in 1931 for the treatment of patients with toxic goitre and myasthenia gravis.

[1] Until the outbreak of First World War, New End Hospital's patients included the unemployed, homeless, and unmarried mothers, and their children.

During the First World War New End Hospital was primarily used for the treatment of wounded and shell-shocked soldiers.

[3] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 under the management of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.

[1] The former hospital mortuary served as the New End Theatre before being converted into a Jewish cultural centre in 2011.

A boilerhouse chimney which was once part of the hospital, and which is retained as a landmark