Bridge of Earn Hospital explained

Bridge of Earn Hospital
Location:Bridge of Earn
Region:Perth and Kinross
State:Scotland
Country:UK
Healthcare:NHS
Type:District General
Founded:1939
Closed:1992
Map Type:Scotland Perth and Kinross

The Bridge of Earn Hospital was a health facility in Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

History

The facility was designed as one of seven Emergency Hospital Service facilities and opened in 1939.[1] It accommodated evacuees from other hospitals as well as some injured German prisoners of war during the Second World War.[1] Patients were transferred from the rehabilitation unit at Gleneagles Hotel in 1946 and from the orthopedic unit at Larbert in 1947.[1] It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.and functioned as a large general hospital with general medical, general surgical, orthopaedic and plastic surgery units.[2] Among the surgeons who worked there was Ian Scott Smillie who became an authority on knee surgery.[3] The hospital closed in 1992 and the buildings were demolished in 2006.[1] The site has since been developed as Oudenarde Village.[1] Its archives are held by Archive Services, University of Dundee.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bridge of Earn Hospital. Historic Hospitals. 2 February 2019.
  2. Web site: Bridge of Earn Hospital. National Archives. 2 February 2019.
  3. Book: Macintyre. Iain. MacLaren. Iain. Surgeons' Lives: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh : an Anthology of College Fellows Over 500 Years. 2005. Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 978-0-9503620-9-0. 251.
  4. Web site: THB 31 Bridge of Earn Hospital. Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. 5 June 2015.