Monday, 23 June 2025

Spotlight On… (10): Project to re-order LHSA’s twentieth-century case notes

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LHSA holds the second-largest collection of medical case notes in the UK, comprising one million folder-based patient records that date back...
Monday, 16 June 2025

Conservation (7): Conservation of twentieth-century folder-based clinical case notes

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Background LHSA has a large and important collection of twentieth-century folder-based case notes, with around thirty specialities and ove...
Monday, 9 June 2025

The Leith Roll of Honour

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The Leith Roll of Honour, created by a resolution of the Leith Town Council in 1920, lists the 2,206 officers and men who were killed in the...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Spotlight On… (9): Recipes from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Department of Dietetics

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The relevance of nutrition in the care of patients was recognised by the Royal Infirmary as far back as 1742 when managers of the hospital w...
Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Conservation (6): Treatment of the Indexes to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh General Register of Patients

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In 2004, the National Archives of Scotland awarded £1,100 (10% of the total cost) to conserve 94 Indexes to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh...
Thursday, 15 May 2025

Spotlight On… (8): The conservation treatment of case notes from Deaconess Hospital

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The Deaconess Hospital (148 Pleasance, Edinburgh) opened in 1894, primarily to provide training for missionary Deaconesses. It also provided...
Tuesday, 13 May 2025

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh’s Royal Charter

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On 25 August 1736, Scotland’s first hospital, in the modern sense of the word, was granted a Royal Charter by His Majesty, King George II. F...