Closure of St Clement’s Hospital
February 21, 2007
Mental health services at St Clement’s Hospital in Bow Road, E3, begin transferring to a new, purpose-built site at the old Mile End Hospital in Bancroft Road. It draws to a close the sometime grim history of St Clement’s which started life as a Victorian workhouse and was then used as an asylum … every bit as grim as it sounds. We’ll be looking at St Clement’s and the London Victorian asylums in a piece on www.eastlondonhistory.com in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime go to East End Life for possible updates.
