Aerial view Digital image of E/4007
SC 749437
Description Aerial view Digital image of E/4007
Date 2001
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 749437
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 4007
Scope and Content Aerial view of Gartloch Hospital, Gartloch Road, Glasgow Gartloch Hospital was opened in 1896 as the Glasgow District Asylum for 'pauper lunatics' following the setting up of District Lunacy Boards in accordance with the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act. Gartloch, designed by architects, Thomson & Sandilands in Scots Baronial style, was closed in 1996. This shows the various buildings which made up this vast asylum. Its huge administrative block, with ornate twin towers, overlooked a green. Alongside was a U-plan hospital administration block with single-storeyed, H-plan ward block behind where mental patients received other medical treatment. Following the more enlightened approach to the treatment of the mentally ill that emerged at the end of the 18th century, seven Royal Asylums were built in Scotland between 1780 and 1840. Overcrowding in these institutions led to the setting up of District Asylums between 1863 and 1905. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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