History
The original site selected at 19 Seafield Road had previously been operated by the Misses Niven as a school in the late 19th century. [2]
The hospital was opened in May 1897 at premises in 19 Seafield Road and was also known as Dundee Private Hospital for Women. [1] [3] It had grown out of an earlier dispensary for women and children, which had been formed earlier in the decade to offer women treatment by female doctors. The hospital aimed to provide surgical care at a low cost. [1] Its founders included the Dundee social reformer Mary Lily Walker and the city's first two female doctors Alice Moorhead (the sister of the artist and suffragette Ethel Moorhead) and Emily Thomson. [4] In 1900, its management committee of included Miss Walker and Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, while Drs Moorhead and Thomson were its medical officers. [5]
In 1915, due to the financial generosity of the Sharp family of Hill of Tarvit, it moved to premises in Elliot Road designed by James Findlay, initially with fourteen beds. [6] [7] It had been planned to move to the new building in 1914, but just prior to its completion it was damaged by fire. The hospital used temporary accommodation in Windsor Street until the damage to the new building was repaired. [1] It became part of the National Health Service in 1948, despite an attempt to stay private, latterly serving as an annex to Dundee Royal Infirmary. It closed around 1975. [1] [6]
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Dr Alice Margaret Moorhead MD LRCP LRCSE LM (Dub), also known as Dr A.M. Moorhead, was one of the first practising female physicians and surgeons in Scotland. In the late 19th century she established a practice and hospital for women in Dundee with her colleague Dr Emily Thomson.
Brigadier Surgeon George Alexander Moorhead MD LRCSI MRCPI was a British military surgeon. He was father to Alice Moorhead and Ethel Moorhead.
Emily Charlotte Thomson was a medical practitioner, co-founder of Dundee Women's Hospital and one of the first women admitted to professional medical societies in Scotland.
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Mary H J Henderson was an administrator with Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in the Balkans in World War I, earning five medals. She founded social work and civic groups led by women, in Dundee, Aberdeen and London and served on charitable bodies including Dundee War Relief Fund, and worked for women's suffrage. She was also a war poet.
The timeline of Dundee history shows the significant events in the history of Dundee, Scotland.
