Louisa Garrett Anderson Flora Murray
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# Endell Street Military Hospital Plaque Standing on Endell Street in Covent Garden, you're standing at the site of a revolutionary act of medical defiance: between 1915 and 1919, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson transformed these former workhouse buildings into Britain's only entirely fema...
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Endell Street WC2, Covent Garden
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Site of Endell Street Military Hospital 1915-1919. Established in former workhouse buildings during the First World War under the command of Dr Flora Murray & Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, this 573-bed hospital is the only British army hospital to have been staffed entirely by women. More than 24,000 soldiers were treated here