City Hospital, Aberdeen

City Hospital is a health facility on Urquhart Road in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Grampian.

City Hospital
NHS Grampian
City Hospital
Shown in Aberdeen
Geography
LocationUrquhart Road, Aberdeen, Scotland
Coordinates57.1542°N 2.0866°W / 57.1542; -2.0866
Organisation
Care systemNHS Scotland
TypeGeneral
Services
Emergency departmentNo
History
Opened1874
Links
ListsHospitals in Scotland

History

The 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
  1. "City Hospital, Aberdeen". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  2. "City Hospital, Aberdeen". National Archives. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  3. Nicolson, Stuart (26 June 2008). "Typhoid left city 'under siege'". BBC Scotland News. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  4. 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.
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