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The Fulham Road

I think I've pinned-down the venue of the funeral at the start of the Play as the large Brompton Cemetery, Fulham Road, Chelsea, SW10. It's about 300 metres (1 yard = 0.91 m) from Maison Rouge Recording Studios (2 Wansdown Place, Fulham Broadway, SW6), so it would be difficult for the band to miss it!
Earl's Court and Chelsea, West London Central London this way!
Maison Rouge Recording Studios, 2 Wansdown Place, Fulham Broadway, SW6 Chelsea, and the River Thames

Supplementary and alternative interpretations suggest Ronnie is in/has been in Intensive Care. So which hospital? Presumably near the cemetery (though not necessarily, I suppose).
As it happens, there's a large hospital a couple of hundred yards away, the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. A slight complication is that there are two other major hospitals on Fulham Road, within a mile of the cemetery - the Royal Marsden Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital.
Does anyone know which has intensive care facilities, or more importantly, did so in the early Seventies?
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