Queen Mary's Hospital

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A physical rehabilitation session at Queen Mary's Hospital in 1944

Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton is a hospital in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1915 to provide care for wounded soldiers, it became a world renowned limb fitting and amputee rehabilitation centre. Recently rebuilt and modernised it has become a unit of the Wandsworth Primary Care Trust. It now provides general community services in addition to the special services for which it is famous.

British actor James Beck was rushed to St Mary's in 1973,[1] suffering from pancreatitis, and died there three weeks later.

References

  1. The Times, death notice and obituary, 7 August 1973

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Coordinates: 51°27′19″N 0°14′32″W / 51.4553°N 0.2422°W / 51.4553; -0.2422


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