During its century-long existence the hospital always specialised in various forms of infectious diseases, ending up as the country's specialist centre for the treatment of Poliomyelitis.

With the dramatic decline in cases globally, the NHS shut down the facility in 1979 and sold off the 13 acre site to commercial developers.

[1][2] It became the Western Fever Hospital in 1885 (soon after the 1884 establishment of nearby Fulham Parish Infirmary, later renamed Fulham Hospital), and additional fever blocks were built in the early 1890s.

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