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Royal Victoria Dispensary, Edinburgh
Unknown, 1905, Photograph
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Royal Victoria Dispensary, Edinburgh
Royal Victoria Dispensary, Edinburgh
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8984
Title
Royal Victoria Dispensary, Edinburgh
Description
A boy is examined by a doctor at the Tuberculosis Detection Clinic, Royal Victoria Dispensary, Edinburgh. The boy is striped to the waist and the doctor is examining his neck, aided by a nurse who is wearing a long white apron and a black bonnet. Large windows let light into the room and cast shadows on the floor. There is a fireplace with a calendar on it behind them and in front of them a table with medical equipment and books on it. A chair stands beside a wastepaper bin.
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Unknown
Date
1905
Size
29 x 37 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Robert Willan Philip founded the Victoria Dispensary for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest in 1887. The Royal Victoria Hospital was founded in 1894, and Polton Farm Colony in 1910. Altogether these formed the nucleus of the "Edinburgh Scheme" for fighting tuberculosis. The Dispensary, Hospital and Farm Colony were given to the City of Edinburgh in 1914 and the Royal Victoria Tuberculosis Trust was created.
The Royal Victoria Hospital is located just off Craigleith Road in the west of Edinburgh, immediately to the south of the Western General Hospital. The hospital began life as a private residence, Craigleith House, which was converted in 1894 into a hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis. The Craigleith House building was demolished in the 1960's. The hospital now provides care for the elderly with a 200 bed medical assessment / rehabilitation unit and a 47 bed psychiatry unit.
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