Moorfields, Westminster and Central Eye Hospital Act 1946
WHEREAS the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (formerly known as the London Eye Infirmary and now commonly called Moorfields) was founded in eighteen hundred and four for affording gratuitous relief to the poor of every country and denomination suffering from diseases of or injury to the eye:

And whereas a royal charter was granted to the president and governors of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital on the seventeenth day of December in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty...