Aerial view. Digital image of E/4035
SC 749449
Description Aerial view. Digital image of E/4035
Date 2001
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 749449
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 4035
Scope and Content Aerial view of Gartnavel Royal Hospital, No 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow Gartnavel Royal Hospital, designed by Charles Wilson (1810-63), a Glasgow architect, was built in the early 1840s to replace the city's first lunatic asylum in Parliamentary Road. It was originally designed to accommodate 420 patients, split between two buildings, one for working class and one for wealthier patients. This shows the hospital originally built on an elevated site at Gartnavel Farm but now surrounded by mature trees and suburban buildings. This vast Tudor-style institution has continued to develop, with the addition of buildings like a nurses' home, an occupational therapy unit, a day hospital and a psycho-geriatric unit. A more enlightened attitude towards the treatment of the mentally ill led to the creation of seven Royal Asylums in Scotland between 1780 and 1840. These institutions became so overcrowded that the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act set up District Lunacy Boards responsible for the provision of care for 'pauper lunatics'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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