Interior View of Specimen Ward Digital image of E/4766

Description Interior View of Specimen Ward Digital image of E/4766

Date c. 1902

Catalogue Number SC 749510

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 4766

Scope and Content Specimen ward, Craig Dunain Hospital (Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum), Leachkin Road, Inverness, Highland Craig Dunain Hospital, originally Inverness District Asylum, was opened in 1864. It was the third District Asylum built in Scotland and was designed by James Matthews, an architect from Aberdeen. Built on a magnificent site overlooking Inverness, at a cost of £45,000, it was finally closed in 2000. This shows a specimen ward and the emphasis put on clean, well furnished, comfortable accommodation for patients. In Matthews' original design each patient had a single room but the hospital covered the whole Highland region and overcrowding soon led to the construction of wards such as this. A more enlightened approach to the problems of mental illness emerged in the late 18th century. Between 1780 and 1840 seven Royal Asylums were built in Scotland. Inverness attempted to become the eighth in 1843 but the £4,500 raised was insufficient so patients continued to be treated in the local infirmary. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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