Old soldiers' home of The Royal Hospital, ensuring the care and well-being of the Chelsea Pensioners who live there and safeguarding the historic buildings and grounds, which it owns in trust'. Royal Hospital is also a ward of the Kensington and Chelsea Council. The population at the 2011 Census was 7,252. Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings were later used by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Greenwich, and are now known as the Old Royal Naval College. The word "hospital" was used in its
British Hospital for Mothers and Babies British Hospital for Mothers and Babies The British Hospital for Mothers and Babies (1905–1984) was a maternity hospital in south London. The Home for Mothers and Babies and Training School for District Midwives opened in May 1905, with the stated objectives of professionalising midwifery. The people behind it were Charles Escreet, an Anglican priest; Alice Gregory, midwife; Leila Parnell and Maud Cashmere. Its first location was in Wood Street, Woolwich, London. The facility opened with six beds but soon expanded to twelve, and in 1915 amalgamated with the British Lying-In Hospital, Holborn, central London. ("Lying-in" is a term for childbirth,