Deeds Not Words: Endell Street Military Hospital WC2

"Deeds not Words. Site of Endell Street Military Hospital 1915 - 1919. Established in former workhouse buildings during the First World War under the command of Dr Flora Murray & Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, this 573-bed hospital is the only British army hospital to have been staffed entirely by women. More than 24,000 soldiers were treated here." Plaque, Endell Street WC2, Covent Garden, London. Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE MD was the daughter of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, co-founder of the London School of Medicine for Women, and niece of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, pioneering feminist thinker.