Hospital for Tropical Diseases

Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Blue plaque on the wall of UCL's union building: SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. This building housed the LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE and the HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES 1920-1939. GREENWICH
Geography
Location	London, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University College London www.lshtm.ac.uk London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
History
Founded	1821
Links
Website	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) is a specialist tropical disease hospital located in London, United Kingdom. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is closely associated with University College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. It is the only NHS hospital dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases and travel-related infections. In addition to specialists in major tropical diseases such as Malaria, Leprosy and tuberculosis. It also provides an infectious disease treatment service for UCLH.

It was founded on 8 March 1821 on board an ex-naval ship and moved onto dry land as the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital in 1870 as part of the Royal Greenwich Hospital. The management of infectious disease moved in 1919 near to Euston Square, in central London, still under the Seamen's Hospital Society. The general in-patient wards at Greenwich continued until that hospital's closure in 1986 with special services for seamen and their families then provided by the 'Dreadnought Unit' at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth.

Since its founding, the hospital has been associated with many of the leading figures in tropical medicine, including Patrick Manson, the 'father of tropical medicine', and Ronald Ross, who was awarded the second Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on malaria.