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6 unusual facts about St Thomas' Hospital


Emmy Rappe

She was sent as a student to Florence Nightingales school Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at St Thomas' Hospital in London in 1866.

King's College Hospital RFC

The merging of King's College Hospital medical department in 1999 with the already merged Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital led to the creation of Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club, an amalgam of three formerly distinct hospital rugby clubs each with a long history.

Mollie's Song

CD 2 included the b-side only track "Call Me", and both CD1 and CD2 included as a b-side the traditional lullaby Hush Little Baby, which was recorded for an episode of the BBC TV programme Challenge Anneka, aired September 23, 1992, in which Anneka Rice organized the release of an album (titled Tommy's Tape), whose royalties would be donated to Tommy's Campaign, for research into premature births at the Children's Intensive Care Unit in St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Nurse education

In 1860 Nightingale set up the first nurse training school at St Thomas' Hospital, London.

Pierre-Jean de Sales Laterrière

In 1807 or 1808 he went to England to study medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London under Sir Astley Paston Cooper, a famous surgeon.

Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet

He then served as Master of the Drapers' Company, sat as an alderman on the City of London Corporation, and was president of St Thomas' Hospital, which he probably saved from ruin, by discovering the frauds of a dishonest steward.


1999 Marlboro 500

Steve Olvey: Greg has severe head and internal injuries, he's being sent to Loma Linda, uh, Hospital for further resuscitative efforts; Dr. Jeff Grange, who's the chief emergency doctor here, uh, in this area is with him in the helicopter and is gonna report back to me soon.

Arthur V. Dias

His mother was Selestina Rodrigo, a philanthripist who later helped found the Visakha Vidyalaya Dias received his primary education from the Cyril Jansz Vidyalaya of Panadura, which was then called St. John's College, and his secondary education from St Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia.

Athiyandal, tiruvannamalai

The "Athiyandal Rangammal hospital" is well known after CMC to north zone people.

Bim

In 1975 at the United States Virgin Islands Film Festival in St Thomas, Bim won a gold medal special jury award as "a film of unusual merit".

Changi Hospital

The hospital was commissioned and named the Royal Air Force (RAF) Hospital.

Charles Alfred Ballance

For much of his professional life he was associated with St. Thomas' Hospital and National Hospital, Queen Square in London.

Christoph Wilhelm von Koch

His neo-classical memorial is in St Thomas's Church, Strasbourg - it was designed by Landolin Ohmacht and constructed in 1816, three years after Koch's death.

Con Colleano

He was born Cornelius Sullivan in Lismore, New South Wales, the son of an Irish man and a woman of indigenous descent whose father was of African heritage from St Thomas in the West Indies.

Doctors Hospital

Doctors' Hospital, medical drama that ran on NBC during the 1975–1976 season

Dr Steevens' Hospital

The renovated and redecorated building faces the south side of Dublin's main railway terminal, Dublin Heuston (former Kingsbridge Station).

Abraham Colles (1773-1843) was appointed to the hospital in 1799, where he remained for 42 years.

Dr. Fred Stone, Sr., Hospital

Stone was "loaned" to the British Fourth Battalion Regiment, and was awarded the British Military Cross for actions performed at Bucquoy in August 1918.

Eastside, Swansea

The Swansea local authority has a housing authority covering Eastside which covers the areas of Birchgrove, Talycoppa, Trallwn, Winch Wen, Port Tennant and St Thomas.

Florence Sarah Lees

She used to visit the sick with her mother and in 1866 she became an observer in Florence Nightingale's school at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Hutchesons' Grammar School

The brothers built Hutchesons' Hospital Building in the Trongate which survived the fire that destroyed much of the city in 1652.

John Carne Bidwill

Bidwill was born at St. Thomas, Exeter, England, the eldest son of Joseph Green Bidwill, a merchant of Exeter and Charlotte, née Carne.

Kandhili

This village also houses a branch of CMC hospital, Vellore.

Melling, Merseyside

Melling Rock contains a public house as well as St Thomas and the Holy Rood, a High Church and part of the Diocese of Liverpool.

Nathaniel Clements

Clements was involved in many charitable activities including Dr Steevens' Hospital, the Erasmus Smith Educational Foundation, the Royal Hospital Kilmainham for retired soldiers, and others.

Peter Beighton

In 1966 Beighton began training in internal medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London and held a Fulbright research fellowship in clinical genetics in 1968-69 with Dr. Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA.

Philip Poole-Wilson

Poole-Wilson was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire where he was senior scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School (now a part of King's College London), University of London, where he was an exhibitioner and received the Stewart Grainger Prize.

Shavendra Silva

Silva was born on 22 June 1964 and had his education at St. Joseph’s College, Anuradhapura, Vijaya College, Matale and St Thomas' College, Matale.

Shiroda, Goa

Shoroda houses one engineering colleges of Goa, Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and two colleges of Alternative medicine the Ayurveda College & Research Centre and Shri Kamaxshi Devi Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital.

Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet

Shortly after Monson moved to Athens, the United States and Danish governments asked him to resolve a dispute known as the Butterfield Claims that had been running since 1854 and 1855, when two ships belonging to Carlos Butterfield & Co., thought to be carrying war materials to Venezuela, were detained at St Thomas, then a Danish colony.

St Thomas, Exeter

The other part, about a mile to the west of the main body of the parish, contained the hamlet of Oldridge and was transferred to the parish of Whitestone in 1884.

St Thomas' Anglican Church, Narellan

It is located on Richardson Road on the edge of the newly developed suburb of Spring Farm.

St Thomas' Anglican Church, North Sydney

The first church called St Thomas' on the site, then named St Leonard's, was designed by Conrad Martens and opened in 1846.

It is located in Broughton Street, Kirribilli, and offers a contemporary, Bible-based service which meets at 8am, 9.30am, 5:00pm and 6:45pm each Sunday and 5:30pm each Saturday evening, followed by supper.

In the later years of the first Rector's time at St Thomas', the Anglican architect Edmund Blacket was recommended to design a larger church; it opened in 1884.

St Thomas' Church, Belfast

: For other churches with the same or similar name, please see St. Thomas' Church.

St Thomas' Church, St Anne's-on-the-Sea

St Thomas' is constructed of red Accrington brick in English garden wall bond, with stonework around the windows in cream Yorkshire stone, and arches, arcades and pillars of red sandstone; the roofs are of red tile.

St Thomas's Abbey, Brno

Czech composer Pavel Křížkovský also took monastic vows at Brno, teaching liturgical music from 1848 until 1872, and from 1865 he formed an ongoing musical collaboration with the young (lay) composer Leoš Janáček who had come from his home in Hukvaldy and begun as a choirboy at the monastery.

His experiments brought forth two generalizations which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.

St Thomas's Church, Oakwood

St Thomas's is a modern Anglican church established in the 1930s as the suburb of Oakwood grew with the extension of the Piccadilly underground line to Cockfosters.

Starobrno Brewery

In 1782, the convent was closed by decision of emperor Joseph II, and the property passed to the hands of St Thomas's Abbey.

Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Irinjalakuda

St Thomas, one of the apostles of Christ, after receiving the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, set about the mission of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to the whole world.

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

A Vietnam veteran who lives at the V.A. Hospital escapes and builds an underground fortress next to the highway.

Theodore C. Lyster

Lyster subsequently served as the Chief of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic at Ancon (Canal Zone) Hospital, Panama and Chief of the Eye Service in the University of Philippines, Manila.

Thiruvithamcode

St Mary's Orthodox Church (Thiruvithamcode Arappally) which is believed to be established by St Thomas in the first century AD, along with seven other churches (ezharappallikal) in Kerala;

Tom Christie

Christie qualified as a doctor in 1950 and spent time at Westminster Hospital and St Thomas’s Hospital training in anaesthetics.

Westminster Bridge Road

The Florence Nightingale Museum is at the west end, located within the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital.


see also

City Hospital

It was broadcast live from London's flagship NHS Health Trust - Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital and The Princess Anne Maternity Hospital in Southampton.

Hydestile

From 1921, Hydestile was the site for two hospitals: King George V Hospital (formerly a TB Sanatorium) and from 1941 St. Thomas' Hospital (formed from the WWII evacuation of Lambeth teaching hospital).

Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper

Florence Nightingale selected St Thomas' Hospital as the site for her new nurse training school, largely because of Wardroper's qualities (and those of the enlightened resident medical officer, R.G. Whitfield).