Old travel Blog photograph of Deaconess Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Deaconess Hospital was opened in 1894 in a building next to St. Ninian's Mission. It provided practical training in nursing for Deaconesses, each of whom spent a year there as part of her training. Deaconesses who wished to become fully qualified nurses spent a further three years in the hospital's Nurses' Training School. The original hospital had 24 beds. Extensions in 1897 and 1912 brought this total up to 42. Emergency beds added during World War I further increased the number to 68, but these were reduced after 1918, so that in 1920 there were 50 beds including " open air " beds and children's cots. There were five wards: Charteris, named after the hospital's founder; Houldsworth, named after the Misses Houldsworth of Ayr who were generous subscribers; the Children's Ward which had 18 beds, six of which were on the balcony; Deaconess for church workers; and Moray. There was also a busy out patient department.
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