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| | Victorian London - Health and Hygiene - Hospitals - St. Bartholomew's Hospital |
 | | St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in Smithfield, is a magnificent structure of atone, consisting of four piles of building that surround an open court. |
 | | BARTHOLOMEW'S (ST.) HOSPITAL, the earliest institution of the kind in London, was part of the priory of St. Bartholomew, founded A.D. by Rahere, the first prior. |
 | | BARTHOLOMEW'S, West Smithfield, founded by Rahere, in 1102, enlarged by Whittington, and incorporated in the reign of Henry VIII., in 1546, is a handsome and capacious edifice of stone, after the designs of Gibbs, surrounding a square, and situated between Christ's Hospital and Smithfield, on the site of the ancient priory of St. |
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