hospital history:
East Poorhouse & Hospital
Opened in 1856 as the Poor House
or 'Workhouse' for Dundee, this institution was meant to take in and look after the destitute poor, who had nowhere else to go. This included people who were physically or mentally ill and the Poorhouse had extensive sick-wards. It was renamed the East Poorhouse after Dundee's Poor Law amalgamation with Liff and Benvie, which had its own Poorhouse.
The Poorhouse was originally built to take 400 people and was gradually extended. Then in 1893 a purpose built poor hospital was built alongside the East Poorhouse.
East Poorhouse Hospital
New Parochial Hospital, about 1910
The new Hospital at the Poorhouse had capacity for over 300 patients. About a third of these patients were classed as mentally ill at the time.
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East House Dance
Evening dance programme for East Poorhouse mental health patients and family, January 1915.
Maryfield General Hospital
© The Courier, DundeeIn 1930 the East Poorhouse Parochial Hospital was taken over by the Public Health Department. In 1948 it entered the NHS as Maryfield General Hospital, though a psychiatric ward continued there until the opening of Ninewells Hospital.
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