Stobhill Hospital
| Stobhill Hospital | |
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| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | |
The B-listed clock tower of Stobhill Hospital
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| Geography | |
| Location | Balornock Road, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | Teaching Ambulatory care Mental health |
| Affiliated university | University of Glasgow |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | In-hours (09:00–21:00) Minor injuries unit |
| Beds | 197 (12 Short-Stay Surgical, 185 Mental Health) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1904 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
Stobhill Hospital is an Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Hospital, located in the district of Springburn in the north of Glasgow, Scotland. It serves the population of North Glasgow and part of East Dunbartonshire.
Stobhill was originally a Poor Law hospital, commissioned by the Glasgow Parish Council, to an 1899–1900, John James Burnet-judged competition winning design by Glasgow architects, Thomson & Sandilands. The foundation stone was laid in September 1901 by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the then Secretary of State for Scotland, and Stobhill Hospital was formally opened on 15 September 1904; the same day as the Western District Hospital at Oakbank in Maryhill and the Eastern District Hospital at Duke Street. The original buildings are now protected as category B listed buildings.
It was built with 1,867 beds organised in several two-storey red brick Nightingale ward blocks on a sprawling, 47-acre (19-hectare) campus on the edge of Springburn Park. The Hamiltonhill Branch of the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway, which ran past the northern boundary of the hospital grounds, facilitated the transport of coal and supplies to the hospital. The cost of the building was £250,000. It featured a large clocktower at the centre of the site, which has become a dominant landmark in the north of the city. The motto of the new hospital was Health is Wealth.
In September 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, the hospital was requisitioned by Royal Army Medical Corps staff of the Territorial Force and the complex split and redesignated as the 3rd and 4th Scottish General Hospitals. Wounded servicemen arrived by specially converted Hospital trains terminating at a temporary railway platform built within the hospital grounds. A staff of 240 TF nurses as well as volunteers from the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association cared for over 1,000 patients at a time, suffering from battlefield wounds to venereal disease, until the return of the hospital to civilian use in the spring of 1920.
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