A much-extended former Classical style mansion on Scott Street in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. Re-designed by James Sellars, the sculpture over the door of a mother and child reveals it was the site of the first dedicated children's hospital in the city.
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Funded by charitable donations, it received its first patient on the 8th of January 1883. At this time, it has just 58 beds, but included an isolation ward and an operating theatre on the top floor lit by gas lamps. In 1888, a separate our-patient department, known as the Sick Children's Hospital Dispensary, was opened a short distance away on West Graham Street (in a building that's now part of the Glasgow School of Art).
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By 1894, the hospital's capacity had expanded to 74 patients, but this was still tiny in comparison to Glasgow's population at that time. As a result, it was replaced by a new, larger purpose-built hospital further west in Yorkhill, which opened in 1914, and this building later became a school.
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