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Old Photograph King's Cross Hospital Dundee Scotland
Old photograph of King's Cross Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. King's Cross opened in November 1889 at a site in Clepington Road, Dundee. It was the city's first permanent fever hospital and was built by Dundee Town Council to treat patients suffering from infectious diseases, including typhus, diphtheria and smallpox. Until the late 1860s, such patients had usually been admitted to Dundee Royal Infirmary, although a temporary fever hospital had been set up in a converted building in Lower Union Street during the 1832 cholera outbreak. At the creation of the National Health Service in 1948, King's Cross came under the management of the new Eastern Regional Hospital Board. This board decided to centralise the management of infectious disease at King's Cross, resulting in the closure the former fever hospitals in Perth, Perthshire and in Forfar and Arbroath in Angus Region. Since the 1990s most of the hospital's services have been transferred to Ninewells Hospital. King's Cross now serves as the administrative headquarters of NHS Tayside.
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