It is perhaps worth noting that the Marylebone hospital referred to in London was in fact a workhouse infirmary.

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Patients may be discharged home and access community-based rehabilitation at the Horizons centre – accessed by Aberdeen patients, or community based therapy services for further afield via low intensity rehab.Although the intentions were laudable that led the Corporation to choose concrete, the drawbacks were an exterior and interior that were ‘cold, cheerless and prison‑like, with cement everywhere on the floor, walls, and ceilings’. Phased construction from 1979 saw the opening of six 20-bed units in 1981, a new school in 1982 and phase three of the redevelopment completed in 1983.

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To work successfully the windows had to be kept shut and the nurses began to complain of the close atmosphere. Letters give an estimated length of time for each appointment, please allow for late running clinics. Rocklands Cottage was turned into a staff house in 1964 in which year plans for further extensions were agreed but delayed by a lack of funds.You may not be seen by him or her, but by another clinician who can discuss your management with the specialist if required. Please see the mapwhich highlights the short stay parking areas that have been reserved for use by visitors and patients using Woodend Hospital. Most patients are admitted from the acute neurology and neurosurgery ward at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, although patients are also admitted from home.

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The House itself was built around 1840 and has an asymmetrical plan, its Jacobethan details forming a picturesque appearance in the wooded Deeside setting.Around that time St Clements Street was a poor area, the houses in multi-occupancy by labourers, riveters, fishermen etc. The complex compares with Edinburgh’s Craiglockhart Poorhouse and Glasgow’s Govan Poorhouse (Southern General Hospital) in the general size and degree of classification provided for the different groups of paupers, although lunatics were not included at Oldmill. Clerkseat House was built in 1852 as the medical superintendent’s house, but it soon became necessary to house patients there due to overcrowding in the main building. The managers of the asylum had decided, after the 1857 Lunacy Act, to provide accommodation for the whole of the paupers in the county, thereby acting as the District Asylum.