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<p>The <b>General Lying-In Hospital</b> was one of the first <a href="Maternity_hospital" title="Maternity hospital">maternity hospitals</a> in Great Britain. It opened in 1767 on <a href="Westminster_Bridge_Road" title="Westminster Bridge Road">Westminster Bridge Road</a>, London and closed in 1971. <a href="Lying-in" title="Lying-in">Lying-in</a> is an archaic term for childbirth (referring to the month-long <a href="Bed_rest" title="Bed rest">bed rest</a> prescribed for <a href="Postpartum_confinement" title="Postpartum confinement">postpartum confinement</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>The General Lying-In Hospital was an initiative of Dr John Leake, a physician, and the site chosen was on the north side of <a href="Westminster_Bridge_Road" title="Westminster Bridge Road">Westminster Bridge Road</a>, <a href="Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a>, then on the outskirts of London. Its <a href="Foundation_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation stone">foundation stone</a> was laid in August 1765 and the facility opened as the <b>Westminster New Lying-in Hospital</b> in April 1767.<sup id="cite_ref-lost_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lost-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>With a view to expansion, the governors bought a lease of a plot of ground with 100-foot frontage on the east side of <a href="York_Road%2C_Lambeth" title="York Road, Lambeth">York Road, Lambeth</a> in the early 1820s. The new building was designed by Henry Harrison and was built at a cost of about £3,000.<sup id="cite_ref-bh_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 22 September 1828, the minutes record that "On Friday Morning a Patient was delivered of a Son in the New Hospital and the Committee met this day in the new Hospital for the first time."<sup id="cite_ref-bh_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The facility was incorporated by <a href="Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a> as the General Lying-In Hospital in 1830.<sup id="cite_ref-bh_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A new ward and a training school for <a href="Midwifery" title="Midwifery">midwives</a> was established in 1879.<sup id="cite_ref-bh_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Joseph_Lister%2C_1st_Baron_Lister" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister">Joseph Lister</a> became <a href="Consultant_(medicine)" title="Consultant (medicine)">consulting surgeon</a> in March 1879 and <a href="Sir_John_Williams%2C_1st_Baronet%2C_of_the_City_of_London" title="Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London">Sir John Williams</a> and <a href="Francis_Champneys" title="Francis Champneys">Sir Francis Champneys</a> were appointed physicians the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-bh_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two houses on the north side of the hospital, known as the Albany Baths, were converted into a nurses' home (i.e. staff accommodation) in 1907; this facility was re-built between 1930 and 1933 as a modern red brick building with a mansard roof, designed by E. Turner Powell.<sup id="cite_ref-bh_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hospital <a href="Evacuations_of_civilians_in_Britain_during_World_War_II" title="Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II">was evacuated</a> to <a href="Verulam_House%2C_St_Albans" title="Verulam House, St Albans">Diocesan House, St Albans</a> during the Second World War, but returned to Lambeth and joined the <a href="National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Service</a> under the management of <a href="St_Thomas'_Hospital" title="St Thomas' Hospital">St Thomas' Hospital</a> in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-bh_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>The hospital closed in 1971 and fell into a state of dereliction. It was restored and refurbished in 2003 at a cost of £4.27 million financed in part by a grant from the Guy's and St Thomas' Charity.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since March 2013 the building has comprised part of the <a href="Premier_Inn" title="Premier Inn">Premier Inn</a> Hotel Waterloo. The modern elements of the hotel were nominated for the 2013 <a href="Carbuncle_Cup" title="Carbuncle Cup">Carbuncle Cup</a> for bad buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Rotunda_Hospital" title="Rotunda Hospital">Rotunda Hospital</a>, formerly the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, founded 1745</li>
<li><a href="Queen_Charlotte's_and_Chelsea_Hospital" title="Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital">Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital</a>, founded 1739 in West London</li>
<li><a href="British_Lying-In_Hospital" title="British Lying-In Hospital">British Lying-In Hospital</a>, 1749</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/greater-london/london/london-waterloo-westminster-bridge.html">Premier Inn Westminster Bridge</a>, the building in its current guise</li></ul>
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