Naval Health Service Traditional Cache
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Invergordon Hospital first opened in 1921 as an Naval Hospital to serve the large Naval base in Invergordon.
After a few years the Navy stopped using it and it became a sanatorium for serious infectious diseases. This was in the days before effective antibiotics. There were numerous wards, but it had two specific TB wards with twenty beds each and five beds out on the veranda (for fresh area treatment). There was a monstrosity of an Iron Lung, which was used for treatment then, which can still be seen in the Invergordon Museum.
It became a geriatric hospital in the early sixties.
Both my mother and myself worked in the old hospital buildings, but obviously not when it was a sanatorium.
Today in its place is a brand new building which houses the Medical Practice, a day hospital and two wards, with a minor injuries unit.
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