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Dundee Women's Hospital
Dundee Women's Hospital, officially known as Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home was a hospital for women in Dundee, Scotland. Originally it operated from premises in Seafield Road, it later moved to Elliott Road. History The original site selected at 19 Seafield Road had previously been operated by the Misses Niven as a school in the late 19th century. The hospital was opened in May 1897 at premises in 19 Seafield Road and was also known as Dundee Private Hospital for Women. It had grown out of an earlier dispensary for women and children, which had been formed earlier in the decade to offer women treatment by female doctors. The hospital aimed to provide surgical care at a low cost. Its founders included the Dundee social reformer Mary Lily Walker and the city's first two female doctors Alice Moorhead (the sister of the artist and suffragette Ethel Moorhead) and Emily Thomson. In 1900, its management committee of included Miss Walker and Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NHS Tayside
NHS Tayside is an NHS board which forms one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services in Angus, the City of Dundee and Perth and Kinross. NHS Tayside is headquartered at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee; one of the largest hospitals in the world. It has three Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs): Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross. Performance In July 2020 the board announced that it had achieved the Scottish Government’s 2024 target of a 90% reduction in prevalence of hepatitis C, after 1970 people were diagnosed and treated, making it the first region in the world to effectively eliminate the virus. It signed a five-year agreement with Alcidion to deploy Miya Observations, an electronic monitoring system which alerts clinical staff when patients show signs of deterioration, in 2022. History NHS Tayside was originally formed as Tayside Health Board in April 1974. It replaced the Eastern Regional Hospital Board, that had been created in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or 6,420/sq mi, the second-highest in Scotland. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea. Under the name of Dundee City, it forms one of the 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Angus, the city developed into a burgh in the late 12th century and established itself as an important east coast trading port. Rapid expansion was brought on by the Industrial Revolution, particularly in the 19th century when Dundee was the centre of the global jute industry. This, along with its other major industries, gave Dundee its epithet as the city of "jute, jam and journalism". Today, Dundee is promoted as "One City, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received. A teachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lily Walker
Mary Lily Walker (5 July 1863 – 1 July 1913) was a Scottish social reformer, who worked to improve conditions for women and children working in industrial Dundee. The ninth child of a Dundee solicitor, Walker was born into a relatively affluent family in the heavily industrialised city. Early life and university Walker excelled academically from a young age, first being educated at Tayside House, before completing her schooling at the High School of Dundee between 1880 and 1881. During her time there, she won prizes in French, German, Perspective and Practical Geometry. After finishing her studies at the High School, she attended University College Dundee upon its inception in 1883. Walker continued to study there for 11 years, studying under professors such as D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (with whom she developed a close friendship and corresponded continuously throughout her life), Alfred Ewing, John Steggall and Patrick Geddes. She continued to flourish, winning prizes at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Moorhead
Dr Alice Margaret Moorhead MD LRCP LRCSE LM (Dub) (1868–23 June 1910), also known as Dr A.M. Moorhead, was one of the first practising female physicians and surgeons in Scotland. In the late 19th-century she established a practice and hospital for women in Dundee with her colleague Dr Emily Thomson. Early life and education Moorhead was born in Maidstone the daughter of Margaret Humphrys and Brigadier Surgeon George Alexander Moorhead. She was older sister of Ethel Moorhead. She studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and attended the Trinity College Dublin, graduating with her doctorate (MD) in July 1890. Career In 1894, Moorhead moved to Dundee, and with Dr Emily Thomson established the first all female practice in Scotland. Thomson treated the richer patients, while Moorhead, who had less need or desire for money, treated the poor. Their premises were originally at 93 Nethergate, where Moorhead lived. Around 1900 they moved the practice to 4 Tay Square where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffragette
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the ''Daily Mail'' coined the term ''suffragette'' for the WSPU, derived from suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all women over the age of 21. When by 1903 women in Britain had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Moorhead
Ethel Agnes Mary Moorhead (28 August 18694 March 1955) was a British suffragette and painter and was the first suffragette in Scotland to be forcibly-fed. Early life Moorhead was born on 28 August 1869 in Fisher Street, Maidstone, Kent. She was one of six children of Brigadier Surgeon George Alexander Moorhead, an army surgeon of Irish Catholic birth, and his wife, Margaret Humphrys (18331902), an Irish woman of French-Huguenot ancestry, whom he had married in India, at Madras Roman Catholic Cathedral on 9 September 1864. Her maternal grandfather was Captain John Goulin Humphreys, a Napoleonic Wars veteran and in an earlier generation one of her mother's family (Pierre Goulin) fought in the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. Her older sister Alice Moorhead (1868-1910) was a pioneer of female medicine, trained as a surgeon and physician, and four of her brothers were doctors, as were several male members of her father's family. Her father was posted with the Berkshire Regiment to Afgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Thomson (medical Practitioner)
Emily Charlotte Thomson (c. 1864 – 21 August 1955) was a medical practitioner, co-founder of Dundee Women's Hospital and one of the first women admitted to professional medical societies in Scotland. Early life and education Emily Charlotte Thomson was born in India to parents Emily Plumb Ogilvie and Alexander Thompson, a schools inspector. She was educated in Dublin, Edinburgh and Rouen and, in 1891, obtained qualifications from three medical licensing authorities in Scotland: the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. She achieved the Dublin Licentiate in Medicine in 1892 and, in 1899, graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChM) from the University of Edinburgh. Career In 1893, Thomson applied successfully to become a member of the Forfarshire Medical Association and, later, the British Medical Association. She joined Mary Lily Walker in co-founding the Dunde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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