The Queen Visits Hammersmith Hospital -- Patients in the Hammersmith Hospital get a real "tonic" as the smiling Queen walks through their ward. Patients well enough were taken out into the sunshine to watch the arrival of the The Queen and Her Majesty toured the wards to speak to those not well enough to be taken outside. H.M. The Queen this afternoon paid a visit to the Hammersmith Hospital, which is celebrating the 50th. Anniversary of it's foundation, in conjunction with the 20th. Anniversary of the inauguration of the Postgraduate Medical School of London University, which is housed at the hospital. June 24, 1955.