View of staff house from NE Digital image of E 8583

Description View of staff house from NE Digital image of E 8583

Date 21/4/2001

Catalogue Number SC 785534

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Nurses' Home, Murthly Hospital, Perth & Kinross, from the north-east (closed 1984 and now demolished) This impressive red sandstone two-storeyed villa, designed by the architect, David Smart (1824-1914), was built in 1885 to the south-west of the main asylum as a convalescent hospital. This east elevation has advanced gabled end blocks with timber-bracketed eaves, and a central gabled entrance bay with a chimney rising from the roof ridge. The hospital was later converted as a nurses' home. The sexes were segregated within the hospital, with male and female patients accommodated in separate wings. Male attendants, under the supervision of a head attendant, were responsible for the care of male patients, and female patients were looked after by female nurses under the supervision of a matron. In the 1890s, the rate of pay for nurses was £18 per year, and included free board and meals and the provision of two uniform dresses annually. Male attendants earned £31 per year. Murthly Hospital, designed by the Dundee firm of architects, Charles Edward & Thomas S Robertson, opened in 1864 as the Perth District Asylum for pauper lunatics. It was the second district asylum to open in Scotland, and in 1894 became one of the first to build villas within its grounds in an early attempt to provide accommodation for patients based on the colony or village system. The hospital closed in 1984 and is now demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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