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Moorfields
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(Moorfields Eye Hospital, London EC1) Institution deriving from a dispensary for the poor, the first in London to specialize in diseases of the eye, which opened in 1805. It was prompted by the large number of soldiers returning from Egypt with trachoma in the *Napoleonic Wars. In the 1820s, known then as the Royal Ophthalmic Eye Hospital, it moved into a new building by Robert Smirke in Lower Moorfields. It moved again in 1899, to its present site in the City Road; but the Moorfields location had by then provided its popular name, which was made official in 1956.
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