Theodore Hospital
53 Mount Street, Mayfair, W1K 2SG
Medical dates:
Medical character:
Convalescent (military)
The Theodore Hospital opened in August 1917 in a house in Mount Street lent by Mrs Zarifi, a Greek lady, who acted as Commandant. It had 20 beds for convalescent officers transferred from Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital.
Mrs Zarifi equipped and financed the Hospital with the aid of a War Office grant until November 1917, when the War Office took over its running until it closed in 1919.
Present status (June 2010)
The building is now an office block.
53 Mount Street.
The main entrance.
(Author unstated) 1917 List of the various hospitals treating military cases in the United Kingdom. London, H.M.S.0.
(Author unstated) 1921 Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England on Voluntary Aid Rendered to the Sick and Wounded at Home and Abroad and to British Prisoners of War, 1914-1919. London, HMSO (reprinted in facsimile, 2009. The Naval and Military Press Ltd in association with the Imperial War Museum).
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