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Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. Detail of boiler house. Digital image of C/16773
SC 749418
Description Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. Detail of boiler house. Digital image of C/16773
Date 30/6/1994
Catalogue Number SC 749418
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 16773
Scope and Content Boiler house, Gartloch Hospital, Gartloch Road, Glasgow Gartloch Hospital was opened in 1896 as the City of Glasgow District Asylum for 'pauper lunatics'. Designed by Thomson & Sandilands, this vast, red sandstone institution was typical of the type of asylum built at the turn of the 19th/20th century. It was closed in 1996. This shows the boiler house, a single-storeyed, crowstep-gabled building in Scots Baronial style, which was part of a range of buildings which included the kitchens, workshops and laundry. Beside them, the imposing administrative block, also in Scots Baronial style, was three storeys high with ornate twin towers. Although Glasgow already had one of Scotland's seven Royal Asylums, overcrowding forced the District Lunacy Board to build Gartloch, which had a bed complement of 540 when it opened, a figure that rose to a peak of 830 in 1904. By 1990 the bed complement had fallen to 530. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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