RUCHILL Hospital opened in 1900 as Glasgow’s infectious diseases hospital and was just short of its century when it closed 17 years ago.
Pictured here in 1975, it was then facing a period of major change.
It had 440 beds when it opened, but it wasn’t long before it had to accommodate more patients, and by 1915, it had more than 700, including 272 beds for tuberculosis patients.
By the time it was incorporated into the NHS in 1948, it had more than 1000.
A couple of decades on and the focus had changed.
In the 1960s, it looked after young chronically ill patients, geriartric patients and those needing psychiatric care.
The next reogranisation took place in the mid 1970s, when the hospital became part of Greater Glasgow Health Board in 1974, in its Northern District.
The following year it had just 586 beds, reducing to 445 beds in 1980 and 280 beds in 1990.
When it closed eight years later,  the care offered would have been beyond the imagination of those who worked there in 1975, never mind in 1900.

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