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Bruntsfield Hospital

Bruntsfield Hospital

Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland

Bruntsfield Hospital was a women's hospital based in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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History

Plaque and tablet on the hospital building
Sophia Jex-Blake memorial plaque in St Giles' Cathedral

The hospital had its origins in 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

  1. [1]
    "Bruntsfield Hospital". www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk. Lothian Health Services Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Bruntsfield Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Reflections" (PDF). The Nursing Record. 9 December 1899. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Greenhill Court". AMA Homes. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
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