Bridge of Earn Hospital 1939-1993

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Bridge of Earn Hospital 1939-1993

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3.45 linear metres

eng,

University of Dundee

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Bridge of Earn Hospital

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At the outbreak of the Second World War, the Emergency Medical Service was established to try and cope with the large numbers of expected war casualties. Seven ‘temporary’ hospitals were built in Scotland for this; Bridge of Earn in Perthshire, Stracathro in Angus, Ballochmyle in Aryshire, Peel in Selkirkshire, Killearn in Dunbartonshire, Raigmore in Inverness and Law in Lanarkshire. Bridge of Earn Hospital was built in 1939 and in 1946 the Rehabilitation Unit which had ...