Tour Scotland Summer travel video, with Scottish Music, of a road trip drive, from Balbeggie through rural Perthshire, then East on the A90 road, on visit to the National Health Service Covid19 testing centre at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Dundee, Tayside. The hospital has its origins in a body called the Society in Aid of Incurable Persons in Dundee and District. This was set up around 1896 and raised funds to acquire Balgay House, in Dundee's Jedburgh Road. This building, thought to date from around 1760, was then extended and adapted into a hospital for Incurables which was opened on 26 August 1899. In 1900 it was renamed the Royal Victoria Hospital, after Queen Victoria, but continued to be run by the society. In 1928 a Royal Charter by King George V made the Society into a Body Corporate and Politic under the title The Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee. James Ernest Cox, born 1876, died 1950, one of the Cox family of textile barons, was at one time vice president of the hospital
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