Hospitals

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Patient, administrative, and staff records. Please note that records are not exhaustive, and mostly only cover 1950s and 1960s.

Scope and Contents The front covers reads: "Facing up to gay comedy – with Blah, Simon Fanshawe and Janice Perry", and shows comedians Chris Edward and Robert Llewellyn from Blah.This issue discusses: a protest against the Salvation Army and their anti-gay actions; the internment and isolation of hospital patients with AIDS; the death of Rock Hudson from complications relating to AIDS; a conference organised by Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) called "AIDS and its Management"; the detention of the black...

Scope and Contents Reference material relating to health services, addiction, mental health services, and services for those with disabilities.Published material: Campaign for the Mentally Handicapped (1972); Working together for the Disabled in Scotland: The role of voluntary organisations (c.1971); Wood, ERic, Browne, Megan, Blackie, J.c., Haldane, J.D., Psychotherapy Casework Counselling Contact (April 1966); Scottish Association for Mental Health annual report (1966);...

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Photograph of the gateway to the hospital for animals in Bombay, India showing a couple of men with a cow and horse standing in the entryway in the early 20th century.

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The Sick Kids Friends Foundation (SKFF) was set up in 1992 to support the work of REHSC and children’s healthcare in southeast Scotland and beyond. SKFF funds comforts and distractions for young patients, medical equipment and research, family support and play facilities, art projects, Artists in Residence and staff training.

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Copy of an architectural plan (60cm x 78cm) of a planned extension to Willesden Municipal Hospital's nurses home. The is only 1 sheet showing the plans at 1 inch to 8 feet. The architect was the borough engineer, F Wayman Brown and the draftsman Percy Johnson-Marshall.

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Note entitled 'Wolves' stating that there was a hospital in Flixton, Folkton, Yorkshire [Sasainn/England] 'to preserve travellers from being devoured by the wolves and other wild beasts of the district.' This was said to be in the time of Athelstane and Carmichael adds a reminder to 'See Leprosey (sic)'. Text has been scored through in pencil.

Content Description Papers of Tom Burns, Professor of Sociology at Edinburgh University 1965-1981. Prior to this appointment he held the post of Research Lecturer in the university's Department of Social Study, working with Erving Goffman.His papers are arranged into the following series:Research: Tom Burns undertook several large scale research studies during his time at Edinburgh. This series includes papers relating to his research into the management of industrial and manufacturing...

Scope and Contents Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of: Percy Road School, Kilburn, proposed alterations and additions (6 plans), 1938 nursery school at Curzon Crescent, NW10 (4 plans), 1937 house at Ridge, Herts (2 plans), 1937 Municipal Hospital: extension to existing nurses home (1 plan), 1938 Wesley Road School: proposed gymnasium...

Scope and Contents Set of 7 copy plans relating to traffic flow and parking planning for the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, at its now vacated Lauriston Place location. One plan is subtitled "Proposed site layout" and has no additions. Plans entitled "Outline Block Plan Scheme 1" and "Outline Block Plan 2" have pencil additions showing changes to building layout, on-site roadways and traffic flow directions. The remainder of the plans show detailed traffic flow proposals, and resultant changes to road lay-out...