St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is a wizarding hospital located in London, England. It was founded by famous Healer Mungo Bonham in the 1600s. The emblem of St. Mungo's is a wand crossed with a bone. It is a huge hospital.

Hogwarts students that are injured at school are normally treated at the Hospital wing by Madam Pomfrey, the school nurse, but some injuries are too major for her, so the students are sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for better treatment.

To enter the premises, one may step through the window of what appears to be a red-bricked, condemned department store called Purge and Dowse, Ltd. This acts as a magical gateway to the main building, much like the barrier at King's Cross Station to Platform 9¾. The interior, on the other hand, looks exactly as a hospital should.

The hospital is located where it is because no one could find a better place to house it. Everywhere in Diagon Alley was too small, so people came up with ideas to build it underground like the Ministry of Magic, but it was decided that underground was too unhealthy. Eventually, a normal Muggle building was purchased so that patients could come and go and fit in with the crowds.

As this hospital seems to be the only hospital featured in the Harry Potter films and novels, it may be that the hospital serves the entire British wizarding population. It may be the case that some charms have been placed upon it to be bigger on the inside than the outside, though a large enough department store could quite easily provide sufficent space as the Wizarding population of Britain would be akin the the population of a mid-sized English city. Was totlaly stuck until I read this, now back up and running. Was totlaly stuck until I read this, now back up and running.

Ground Floor - Reception and Artifact Accidents
In the reception area, a Welcome Witch sits at a desk marked Inquiries. The receptionist helps anyone who is unsure where to go, incapable of normal speech, or unable to remember why they are at the Hospital.

Artefact Accidents deals with cauldron explosions, wands backfiring, broom crashes, and so forth.

First Floor - Creature-Induced Injuries
Location of the "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn Ward

Addresses bites, stings, burns, embedded spines, etc.


 * Healer-in-Charge
 * Hippocrates Smethwyck


 * Trainee Healer
 * Augustus Pye

Arthur Weasley was a patient here after being attacked by Nagini. He shared the ward with a man who had been bitten by a werewolf and a woman with a massive chunk out of her leg who refused to tell the Healers what had bitten her arousing suspicions she had been handling something illegal. Also, according to Arthur Weasly, there was a nasty smell when the healers changed her dressings.

Second Floor - Magical Bugs and Diseases
Addresses contagious maladies such as dragon pox, Vanishing Sickness, and Scrofungulus.

Third Floor - Potions and Plant Poisoning
Addresses rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling, and more.

Fourth Floor - Spell Damage
Addresses unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly-applied charms, etc.

Herbert Chorley, Muggle Junior Minister, was admitted to the hospital, afflicted with a badly-performed Imperius Curse. The spell caused him to impersonate a duck. While being treated at the hospital, he tried to strangle some Healers.

Professor Minerva McGonagall was admitted to this floor after receiving four Stunning Spells to the chest at the hands of Dolores Umbridge.

Nymphadora Tonks was a patient here after her battle with Bellatrix Lestrange in 1996.

Katie Bell would have been a patient on this floor when she was admitted to St. Mungo's after touching a cursed necklace she was carrying. At the time, she was under the influence of an Imperius curse.

Someone who was there at the same time as the Weasley family had shoes that his brother had jinxed to bite his feet.

Also located on this floor is the Janus Thickey Ward, a long-term residence ward which is usually kept locked. Patients with permanent or long-lasting spell damage reside here. Residents at this ward have been Broderick Bode, Alice and Frank Longbottom, a witch named Agnes, and Gilderoy Lockhart.

Fifth Floor - Visitors' Tearoom and Hospital Shop
A place for visitors to relax and purchase gifts for patients.

Etymology
Mungo Bonham could have been named after Saint Mungo, aka Saint Kentigern, the patron saint of Glasgow. His pregnant mother was abandoned by her family before his birth. He is considered the first bishop of Scotland. "Mungo" was also a nickname meaning "dear one" or "darling".

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
 * Wizard of the Month

Notes and references
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