City Hospital is a health facility on Urquhart Road in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Grampian.
City Hospital | |
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NHS Grampian | |
![]() City Hospital | |
Geography | |
Location | Urquhart Road, Aberdeen, Scotland |
Coordinates | 57°09′15″N 2°05′12″W / 57.1542°N 2.0866°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS Scotland |
Type | General |
Services | |
Emergency department | No |
History | |
Opened | 1874 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
History
editThe facility, which was designed by William Smith, was established as an infectious diseases hospital in 1874.[1] It was significantly expanded in 1895 and a new nurses' home was completed in 1931.[1] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.[2] During the 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak, over 400 cases were diagnosed and the patients were quarantined at the City Hospital and Woodend Hospital, although no fatalities resulted.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ a b "City Hospital, Aberdeen". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ "City Hospital, Aberdeen". National Archives. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ Nicolson, Stuart (26 June 2008). "Typhoid left city 'under siege'". BBC Scotland News. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
- ^ Smith, D. F. (1 July 2007). "Food panics in history: corned beef, typhoid and "risk society"". Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 61 (7): 566–570. doi:10.1136/jech.2006.046417. PMC 2465752. PMID 17568045.