[1] This was lent to him by Mrs Mary Curtis, a resident of Stratford - now Grade II listed, it survives and is now the head office of activeNewham.

[1] It operated as a 32-bed accident unit with five resident and visiting doctors, three consulting surgeons, a matron, four nurses and two probationers to save the long journey to the London Hospital, whilst the Old Dispensary became its outpatients department.

[1] John Passmore Edwards donated £3,000 to the costs of a new 24-bed wing, laid its foundation stone in February 1894 and opened it 14 months later.

Legacies from Rudolph Zunz and Joseph Withers enabled the opening of two new wards in 1911, bringing the hospital up from 60 to 100 beds.

By the time of the First World War it had 110 beds and 50 of these were initially offered for army use (later rising to 80 in 1916), leading to an affiliation with the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolwich.