Bruntsfield Hospital was a women's hospital based in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland.
| Bruntsfield Hospital | |
|---|---|
| NHS Lothian | |
 Former Bruntsfield Hospital | |
  Shown in Edinburgh | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55°56′08″N 3°12′09″W / 55.9355°N 3.2024°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS Scotland |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| History | |
| Opened | 1878 |
| Closed | 1989 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
History
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The hospital had its origins in a public dispensary opened by Sophia Jex-Blake at 73 Grove Street in September 1878.[1] It moved to 6 Grove Street, a building large enough to provide in-patient services, as the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children in 1885.[1]
When Jex-Blake retired and moved away in 1899, the trustees acquired her house, Bruntsfield Lodge, and fitted it out as an 18-bed women's hospital.[1][2] The hospital committee was led by well-connected women active in various social reform projects such as Flora Stevenson.[3]
In 1910 the hospital merged with "The Hospice", a small maternity home which had been established by Elsie Inglis and the Medical Women's Club at 11 George Square some eleven years previously.[2] A new ward block, designed by Arthur Forman Balfour Paul, was officially opened by Queen Mary in July 1911.[2] The hospital was joined the National Health Service in 1948 and closed in 1989.[2] The building was then converted for residential use and is now known as Greenhill Court.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Bruntsfield Hospital". www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk. Lothian Health Services Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Bruntsfield Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ "Reflections" (PDF). The Nursing Record. 9 December 1899. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ "Greenhill Court". AMA Homes. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
External links
edit- History of Bruntsfield Hospital (Lothian Health Services Archive)
- Bruntsfield Hospital and Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital (Lothian Health Services Archive)
- Three Scottish Women's Hospitals from their foundations to 1948 - Lecture given by Margaret Menzies Campbell (Archived at University of Dundee. Also available from Mitchell Library, Glasgow)