Plastic Surgery at Hill End
A pioneering hospital
By Fred Weil
During World War II Hill End Hospital housed one of the plastic surgery units for London. This is covered on two web sites
- the Lost Hospitals of London, this is a full description of the hospital with a section on plastic surgery.
- Plastic Kiwis – New Zealanders and the development of a speciality, this covers pioneering work by many surgeons including that done by Rainsford Mowlem at Hill End.
This page was added on 29/01/2011.
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I was told by staff that some of the pioneering plastic surgery was done on Grafton Ward, on the Guinea Pigs (wartime pilots with burns given pioneering surgery). Some of these doctors apparently painted rude epitaphs on grave stones painted on the walls of the staff canteen.