Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. View from South. Digital image of C/16778
SC 749419
Description Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. View from South. Digital image of C/16778
Date 30/6/1994
Catalogue Number SC 749419
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 16778
Scope and Content Superintendent's House, Gartloch Hospital, Gartloch Road, Glasgow, from south Gartloch Hospital was opened in 1896 as the City of Glasgow District Asylum for 'pauper lunatics'. It was built as a result of the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act to ease overcrowding in the city's Royal Asylum. Designed by architects Thomson & Sandilands, in Scots Baronial style, Gartloch closed in 1996. This shows the Superintendent's House, one of the many buildings which made up this vast, red sandstone institution, a landmark visible for miles around. When it opened in 1896, the bed complement at Gartloch was 540 but by 1904 this figure had risen to 830 before falling back to 530 in 1990. Gartloch was a typical turn of the century asylum including innovative late 19th-century features such as villa accommodation for patients and a self-contained hospital unit where other medical conditions could be treated and patients with infectious diseases could be isolated. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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