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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:45 pm Post subject: Hospital Name?

I'm trying to decypher the name of a hospital in Edinburgh on a death cert. April 1916.

Something, something Hospital Slateford, Colinton Parish, Edinburgh.

Help!
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kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Ken

Craig Lockhart ?

If not can you e-mail me the DC?
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Hi Ken,
Could this be what your after

The Hydropathic and the War Hospital
In 1877, the estate became the property of the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Company, who set about building a hydropathic institute. The Hydropathic was built in the Italian style. Craiglockhart remained as a hydropathic, until the advent of the First World War. Between 1916 and 1919 the building was used as a military psychiatric hospital for the treatment of shell-shocked officers.

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Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject:

Craiglockhart was where Sassoon met Owen in 1917 and is now part of Napier University.

It is very near Redford Barracks and is in Colinton Parish. I wouldn't describe it as in Slateford these days but ninety years ago before the city suburbs spread out then Slateford was probably the nearest community.

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Adam

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:56 am Post subject:

Jim/John
Have e-mailed the Death Register Page and posted it here.
It's the second entry (JOHN NISH)
To me it looks like "Comely Tower" but???
The family gravestone (photo from Spoons) shows "Slateford Hospital".
Ken

ADMIN EDIT: Scotlands People image removed as it is a copyrighted image and should not be posted here.

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kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Looks like County Fever
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Stewartry · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 274 Location: nr Nottingham

The image is too small for me to make any guess, sorry. The report in the local newspaper states that he died from fever at Slateford Hospital, Edinburgh, only two weeks after leaving Castle Douglas to start his military service.

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spoons · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject:

Pretty sure it is Slateford Fever Hospital which is only about a 10 minute walk from Redford Barracks if you take the direct route by the Water of Leith. The County Fever Hospital at Slateford was somewhere near to Slateford Station I think, perhaps up the hill towards Craiglockart.

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Adam Brown · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject:

The old City Hospital which is now closed was up in the same area but it is in Oxgangs.

It used to be the City Hospital for Infectious Diseases and before that the City Fever Hospital but Colinton Mains would be too far away to be described as Slateford.

I used to live in the area and if it was between the station and Craiglockhart I think it has been demolished a long time ago to make way for housing.

Cheers

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spoons · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:09 am Post subject:

Excellent map.

I think from the map and the description that it is the small fever hospital marked on the map at Slateford and not the hydropathic or larger fever hospital at Colinton Mains/Craiglockart. I agree with ADP that from the map it looks to be the site of Allen Park Crescent etc.

\Paul

David McNay · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:02 pm Post subject:

It wouldn't have been Craiglockhart since I believe that was exclusively for officers, and this man was a Gunner.

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Ken

Thanks for the DC image.

As advised earlier in post 6, the DC cstates " County Fever Hospital Slateford " as the place of death.

Incidentally, the entry after Nish is for an carter usually resident in Edinburgh. He died of TB at " Sanatorium Craiglockhart "
I have seen Craiglockhart given as two words in the past, hence my original response / thought with a ? after it.
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If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks Everyone.
Don't you just love the way that a fairly simple request often produces all sorts of fascinating "stuff" ???
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Leither · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 13 Location: South-East Scotland

Re hospitals in Edinburgh I suggest you contact Lothian Health Services Archive which is located in the University Library Building on George Square. They have a fund of information and the staff are excellent at finding any requests made of them