The Royal Free Hospital

Mateshwari who had been very ill in London and was taking regular treatment at the Royal Free Hospital. One fateful day, in 1967, it was decided byShri Nathji and Mateshwari that London be left for good. Travel arrangements to India were made and the necessary travel vaccinations taken. For Mateshwari, the vaccination was to prove a fatal one. The serum that entered her body was like the poison of a thousand sins. Her skin became dark, and a rash spread upon it that defied the best of medical attention. Numerous attempts were made by the doctors in London to seek a cure for the skin disease. "If only someone will tell us what poison has been administered into the body, we shall seek an antidote," they said. Just when it appeared that the rash had begun to disappear, doctors began to apprehend ominous signs of kidney failure. Mateshwari was in hospital for long periods of time. The hospital was well equipped with the latest equipment and the best of medical experts. "We shall be very surprised if she doesn’t recover," said a certain Dr. Taylor of the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Also in 2004 HH  Pran Nathji was admitted at this hospital for a short time.

The Royal Free Hospital was founded in 1828 by the surgeon William Marsden to provide - as the name indicates - free care to those of little means. It is said that Marsden found a young girl in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, suffering from hypothermia, and sought help from one of the nearby hospitals. However, none would take the girl in, and she died in agony in Marsden's arms; the horror of the experience led him to establish the Royal Free.

In 1828 Marsden set up a small dispensary at 16 Greville Street, Hatton Garden, Holborn, called the London General Institution for the Gratiutious Care of Malignant Diseases. A royal charter was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 after a cholera epidemic in which the hospital had extended care to many victims. As demand for in-patient facilities increased, it was constituted as the Royal Free Hospital, and moved to the Gray's Inn Road in the 1840s.