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Normally
I do not answer questions relating to people and events after the end
of the First World War, but this question, from Roger, relates to a
building, Oster House, which is already mentioned on my web site, and I am also interested because of my mental health work, which meant I helped inspect a temporary mental health ward that was on the site in the 1990s.
The relevant part of Roger's question reads:
My great grandfather George Henry Webb practiced dentistry in St
Albans and also at a free hospital in St Pancras. After he died in
1932 Annie Fensome continued to live at 58 Lattimer Road and used the
name Webb. She died in Oster House Hospital on 28 February 1946.
Presumably this was not regarded as a Work House as probate shows she
left the sum of £2,453 2s 9d to someone called Lizzie Smith wife of
a John Smith London.
The medical history of Oster House, and the adjoining Oster Hills Workhouse site, is complex, and I can only highlight a few key events:
