{"id":2492,"date":"2023-02-20T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2022-12-11T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T12:33:34","slug":"belfast-hospital-for-sick-children-21-queen-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/belfast-hospital-for-sick-children-21-queen-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, 21 Queen St."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hospital opened in the 1870s. It was founded by charitable subscription and some of the prominent patrons included Lord O&#8217;Neill (President), Sir Thomas Dixon (Patron) and Lady Edith Dixon (Patron).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 1897, due to funding problems, the hospital was compelled to stop offering free out-patient medicine, opting for a discounted prescription model instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hospital moved to a new building on the Falls Road in 1932.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notable medical staff include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Joseph Nelson \u2013 Eye and ear specialist. He also served with Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi in Italy during the reunification of that country in the 1860s, ran a tea plantation in India, and was a president of the Ulster Medical Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Brice Smyth \u2013 Founding physician. Ex-president of the British Gynaecological Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Fagan \u2013 Founding surgeon. He helped John Dunlop create his air filled bicycle tyre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jessie Lennox \u2013 Founding matron. An ex-student of Florence Nightingale&#8217;s school of nursing, she kept in contact with Nightingale regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you want to learn more about the history of Belfast? We pass this site on my <a href=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/diseases-drs\/\">Doctors and Diseases Tour!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hospital opened in the 1870s. It was founded by charitable subscription and some of the prominent patrons included Lord O&#8217;Neill (President), Sir Thomas Dixon (Patron) and Lady Edith Dixon (Patron). From 1897, due to funding problems, the hospital was compelled to stop offering free out-patient medicine, opting for a discounted prescription model instead. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-34"],"blocksy_meta":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20220128_125350-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}