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Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Asylum View of East block from South. Digital image of B/4629
SC 749409
Description Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Asylum View of East block from South. Digital image of B/4629
Date 28/5/1987
Catalogue Number SC 749409
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 4629
Scope and Content East block, Gartloch Hospital, Gartloch Road, Glasgow, from south Gartloch Hospital, on the east side of Glasgow, was opened in 1896 as the City of Glasgow District Asylum for 'pauper lunatics'. Designed by Thomson & Sandilands, this red sandstone, Scots Baronial-style institution was typical of the way asylum planning had progressed by the turn of the 19th/20th century. This shows one of the many buildings which make up this vast institution. Gartloch included its own hospital section to give medical treatment to asylum patients. It consisted of a two-storeyed, U-plan administrative block and single-storeyed, H-plan block behind, containing wards, kitchen and dining facilities. District Asylums, like Gartloch, were built following the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act to ease overcrowding in Scotland's seven Royal Asylums. The first District Asylum, built in 1863, was in Lochgilphead and served the district of Argyll. The last was Bangour Hospital, built in 1905 for Edinburgh District. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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