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The Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital was a hospital in Fairmilehead, Edinburgh, opened in 1932 and closed in 2000. After closure, with services transferred to the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, it was demolished and the site sold for housing. ==Early history== In the late 1920s, an appeal was launched to found a hospital for the orthopaedic treatment of physically disabled children in south-eastern Scotland.〔(Lothian Hospital Histories: Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital ), Lothian Health Services Archive〕 A site was on the Mortonhall estate, near Fairmilehead in southern Edinburgh.〔 It sat on the north side of Frogston Road with a south-facing slope towards open farmland, well away from the city. The hospital opened in June 1932, as the Edinburgh Hospital for Crippled Children, 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 Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Crippled Children, after Princess Margaret Rose, the four-year-old younger daughter of the then Duke of York (later King George VI). The name was shortened to the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Children in 1937. The majority of cases came from osteomyelitis and tuberculosis 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.〔 A residential block for nurses was built in 1935, designed by Reginald Fairlie, and later registered as a Grade B listed building.〔(LB30329: 41 and 43 Frogston Road West, Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, Nurses' Home ) - Historic Environment Scotland〕 The western lodge, built at the same time, was Grade C listed.〔(LB30327: 41 and 43 Frogston Road West, Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, West Gate Lodge with gatepiers, gates, and boundary walls ) - Historic Environment Scotland〕 Both still exist on the site. 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 Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. This system lasted until 1978, when the teaching of orthopaedic nursing was restructured to be a post-registration course. On the foundation of the National Health Service in Scotland in 1948, the Princess Margaret passed into state management, grouped with the Edinburgh Central Hospitals.〔 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「Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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