City Hospital is a health facility on Urquhart Road in

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, Scotland. It is managed by

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History

The facility, which was designed by William Smith, was established as an infectious diseases hospital in 1874. It was significantly expanded in 1895 and a new nurses' home was completed in 1931. The hospital joined the

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in 1948. During the 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak, over 400 cases were diagnosed and the patients were quarantined at the City Hospital and

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, although no fatalities resulted.

References

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