Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital
Coordinates: 55°54′00″N 3°11′42″W / 55.9°N 3.195°W The Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital was a hospital in Fairmilehead, Edinburgh, opened in 1932 and closed in 2000. After closure, with services transferred to the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, it was demolished and the site sold for housing.
In the late 1920s, an appeal was launched to found a hospital for the orthopaedic treatment of physically disabled children in south-eastern Scotland. A site was on the Mortonhall estate, near Fairmilehead in southern Edinburgh. It sat on the north side of Frogston Road with a south-facing slope towards open farmland, well away from the city.
The hospital opened in June 1932, as the Edinburgh Hospital for Crippled Children, with two 25-bed wards. A further two were opened by 1936, for a total capacity of 100 patients. Shortly after opening, it was renamed the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Crippled Children, after Princess Margaret Rose, the four-year-old younger daughter of the then Duke of York (later King George VI). The name was shortened to the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Children in 1937. The majority of cases came from osteomyelitis and tuberculosis infections, and prevailing medical opinion of the time held that open-air treatment was beneficial. The wards were roofed, but open to the air at the southern end, to ensure as much benefit from the fresh air as possible.
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