Middlesex Hospital, Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road

Middlesex Hospital was instituted in 1745 for the relief of "the indigent, sick, and lame". By 1747 the governors of the hospital agreed to also take in the "pregnant wives of the industrious poor". In 1755 the governors erected a new building to cope with the ever increasing patients; at that time the hospital stood in open fields. About 1805 it was decided to stop aiding pregnant women (it being felt they were better at home) and instead turned the lying-in ward into a ward for cancerous patients.