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Dundee Royal Infirmary, often shortened to DRI, was a major teaching hospital in Dundee, Scotland. Until the opening of Ninewells Hospital in 1974, Dundee Royal Infirmary was Dundee’s main hospital. It was closed in 1998, after 200 years of operation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://arccat.dundee.ac.uk/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=((text)='56-bed') )〕 ==History== Dundee Royal Infirmary's origins lay in a voluntary dispensary founded in Dundee by Dr Robert Stewart and the local minister Robert Small in 1782, building on a similar venture started in 1735. This venture was seen to be beneficial to the community and, in 1793, it was proposed that an infirmary for indoor patients should be founded. This proposal was realised when the Dundee Infirmary was opened in King Street on 11 March 1798, just under four years after its foundation stone had been laid. At first, this building housed 56 beds, but it was expanded by the addition of wings between 1825 and 1827. The infirmary was granted a Royal Charter by George III in 1819, after which it became known as the "Dundee Royal Infirmary and Asylum". In 1820, the asylum was formally established as a separate entity in its own premises in Albert Street, and the hospital gained its official title of "Dundee Royal Infirmary", although locals would often simply refer to it as "the DRI".〔 When opened in 1798 the infirmary had two physicians, Sir Alexander Douglas and Dr John Willison and seven surgeons. The surgical department included Mr John Crichton who remained associated with the hospital until 1860. The first nurse at the hospital was Mrs Farquharson. The first matron was Mrs Jane Sandeman appointed in 1837 (prior to that the matron's duties had been filled by the housekeeper-matron). Another founding member of staff was Thomas Nicoll, who had been appointed apothecary in 1796. Despite the extensions of the 1820s, the King Street premises were no longer adequate by the middle of the nineteenth century. As a result, in 1852, building started on a new site in Barrack Road, which was completed and opened in February 1855.〔 The new home of the infirmary was a large neo-Elizabethan construct with a central gatehouse comparable to that of an Oxbridge College. This proved to be more expensive to build than anticipated, with the £14,000 raised for the project by public subscription failing to cover the building costs. The new building was originally built to accommodate 220 patients, but it was extended several times as the hospital expanded its services.〔 Following the opening of the new building, the King Street building was turned into model lodgings.〔 Further royal charters were granted in 1877 and 1898. The former charter was granted on the occasion of the opening of a convalescent home connected with the hospital at Barnhill which had been endowed by the philanthropist Sir David Baxter, (this was not connected to the similarly named Dundee Convalescent Hospital). The Convalescent Home could hold up to 84 patients and was part of a 7 acre site that is now occupied by Fettercairn Drive and Stracathro Terrace. Prior to the creation of the National Health Service, the infirmary depended heavily on the generosity of benefactors such as James Key Caird. Donations from Caird provided the hospital with cancer and maternity facilities.〔 In 1892, an ophthalmic department was established at the infirmary. This included two four-bed wards for treating patients from the Dundee Eye Institution. The Eye Institution had been set up in 1836 to provide free ophthalmic treatment, but originally sent patients to Edinburgh and Glasgow for operations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://arccat.dundee.ac.uk/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=((text)=%27thb%206%27) )〕 During World War I, part of the Infirmary was requisitioned for use as a military hospital. The running of the hospital was taken over by the newly formed National Health Service on 5 July 1948.〔 A specialist Neurosurgery Department was set up in the 1960s by Joseph Block and Ivan Jacobson, who pioneered the use of advanced neuro-surgical techniques at the hospital, and officially opened in 1966.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.neurosurgery-mse.com/msamelj_006.htm )〕 In the 1970s, the hospital became one of the first in the United Kingdom to acquire a CAT scan head scanner, when it did so under Jacobson's guidance.〔 Neurosurgery in Dundee would remain at the Royal Infirmary, only being transferred to Ninewells when DRI closed.〔 DRI finally closed in 1998; its remaining functions were moved to the larger and more modern facilities at Ninewells.〔 The building and site were declared to be surplus to requirements by the Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and announced to be available for development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/dundeecity/uploaded_publications/publication_998.pdf )〕 The main building, which opened in 1855, survives, having been converted for use as flats.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dundee Royal Infirmary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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