St James' Hospital, Balham

The existing buildings were converted and became known as the St James's Road branch of the Garratt Lane workhouse.

[1] In 1909 the Wandsworth Board of Guardians built St James' Infirmary in Sarsfeld Road, on what had once been the workhouse gardens.

[1] It was officially opened in November 1910 by the Rt Hon John Burns (1858-1943), President of the Local Government Board, with the main ceremony taking place in an unfurnished ward.

Established in August 1914 at St Gabriel's College in Cormont Road, a large modern building built in 1900, overlooking Myatt's Fields, a municipal park.

[1] During the Second World War the Hospital suffered superficial damage from incendiary bombs - on one occasion over 200 fell on the site.

The Hospital had not been originally designed for the treatment of out-patients, this department had been housed in a small obsolete building.

[1] In 1952, the foundation stone for the new main building was laid by Frank H. Elliott, the Chairman of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.

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