Bridge of Earn Hospital

The facility was designed as one of seven Emergency Hospital Service facilities and opened in 1939.[1] It accommodated evacuees from other hospitals as well as some injured German prisoners of war during the Second World War.[1] Patients were transferred from the rehabilitation unit at Gleneagles Hotel in 1946 and from the orthopedic unit at Larbert in 1947.[1] It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.and functioned as a large general hospital with general medical, general surgical, orthopaedic and plastic surgery units.[2] Among the surgeons who worked there was Ian Scott Smillie who became an authority on knee surgery.[3] The hospital closed in 1992 and the buildings were demolished in 2006.[1] The site has since been developed as Oudenarde Village.[1] Its archives are held by Archive Services, University of Dundee.[4]