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During the cholera epidemic of 1866, the Revd William Pennefather (1816-1877), vicar of St Jude's in Mildmay Park, set out to help the East End sick, together with a team of Christian women (later to be known as Deaconesses).

In 1892 the Mildmay Mission Hospital, a charitable organisation, opened in Hackney Road as a memorial to Revd Pennefather and to serve the local population.

The Hospital joined the NHS in 1948 but government cutbacks in the early 1980s, singling out small district general hospitals as 'uneconomical', forced its closure in 1982.

Present status (December 2007)

The Hospital reopened in 1988 as an independent Christian charitable hospital caring for HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The first European AIDS hospice was established here.

LOST HOSPITALS OF LONDON
	Mildmay Mission Hospital Hackney Road, Shoreditch, E2 7NA

	Medical dates: Medical character:	1877 - 1982 Acute
	During the cholera epidemic of 1866, the Revd William Pennefather (1816-1877), vicar of St Jude's in Mildmay Park, set out to help the East End sick, together with a team of Christian women (later to be known as Deaconesses). In 1892 the Mildmay Mission Hospital, a charitable organisation, opened in Hackney Road as a memorial to Revd Pennefather and to serve the local population. The Hospital joined the NHS in 1948 but government cutbacks in the early 1980s, singling out small district general hospitals as 'uneconomical', forced its closure in 1982. Present status (December 2007) The Hospital reopened in 1988 as an independent Christian charitable hospital caring for HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The first European AIDS hospice was established here.
	The entrance to the Hospital on Hackney Road The buildings off Austin Street The back of the campus off Virginia Road
	The Mildmay Deaconess Institute was also responsible for the Mildmay Memorial Hospital in Islington.
	References www.aim25.ac.uk
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