3-066-025 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Opening the Marylebone Infirmary at Notting-Hill: the Princess of Wales visiting the patients, 1881. Hospital in west London '...constructed by the guardians of the parish of Marylebone for an Infirmary to receive the sick poor of that large parish...The Prince and Princess were conducted to the Western Pavilion, where two wards are occupied by patients. The southern ward was named, by their permission, after his Royal Highness, the "Albert Edward Ward" and the northern one, the "Alexandra Ward." After inspecting all the arrangements for the wellbeing and comfort of the patients, which elicited very gratifying remarks, their Royal Highnesses were ushered into a room fitted up with exquisite taste at the cost of one of the guardians, Mr. Donaldson, and partook of refreshments'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.