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Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital

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46: 235: 386:, built 67 houses and two apartment blocks in the first phase of development, plus converted a third block (the former nurses' quarters) into flats. The initial plans for the second phase had relied on adapting the existing Orthopaedic Wing, a listed building, but this was demolished after an arson attack in 2002. It was replaced by a new development with six flats and seventeen terraced houses, under the name "Princess Gate", designed by 1055: 368: 53: 1043: 379:, which opened in 2003. As part of this redevelopment, a number of smaller hospitals were to be closed, with their work centralised at the new Infirmary. The Princess Margaret Rose was closed in 2000, with the site sold for housing for £4.3 million in 2002. 624: 1030: 285:
infections, and prevailing medical opinion of the time held that open-air treatment was beneficial. The wards were roofed, but open to the air at the southern end, to ensure as much benefit from the fresh air as possible.
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During the 1940s the hospital began to be used for teaching orthopaedic nursing, with a two-year training program which led into a three-year registered nursing course at the
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In the late 1920s, an appeal was launched to found a hospital for the orthopaedic treatment of physically disabled children in south-eastern Scotland. A site was on the
852: 743: 939: 344:. The hospital became a centre for research and development into prostheses, including the development of the first electrically-powered prosthetic arms by 1106: 1010: 96: 1096: 304:. This system lasted until 1978, when the teaching of orthopaedic nursing was restructured to be a post-registration course. On the foundation of the 1101: 995: 1091: 1081: 266: 261:, with two 25-bed wards. A further two were opened by 1936, for a total capacity of 100 patients. Shortly after opening, it was renamed the 1025: 305: 1020: 533:"LB30327: 41 and 43 Frogston Road West, Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, West Gate Lodge with gatepiers, gates, and boundary walls" 1046: 919: 1086: 1058: 929: 765: 602: 554: 980: 197: 944: 899: 376: 301: 234: 218: 89: 839: 791: 485: 17: 387: 325: 985: 949: 934: 990: 894: 671: 427: 294: 308:
in 1948, the Princess Margaret passed into state management, grouped with the Edinburgh Central Hospitals.
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in the early 1960s. During the 1960s, it became a centre of treatment for cases of
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style. This was later listed as Grade B building, but has since been demolished.
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During the 1990s, a site in the south of Edinburgh was developed for the new
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Princess Margaret Rose, centre, with her grandmother and elder sister in 1939
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A residential block for nurses was built in 1935, designed by
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In 1966, a new orthopaedic extension was built, designed by
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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume
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Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Crippled Children
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Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Crippled Children
Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital is located in Edinburgh
Fairmilehead
Edinburgh
Coordinates
55°54′00″N 3°11′42″W / 55.9°N 3.195°W / 55.9; -3.195
Care system
Type
Specialist
Hospitals in Scotland
Fairmilehead
Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Mortonhall
Fairmilehead
Edinburgh
Princess Margaret Rose
George VI
osteomyelitis
tuberculosis
Reginald Fairlie
Grade B listed building
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
National Health Service in Scotland
Second World War
polio
vaccination campaign
phocomelia
thalidomide

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