Dr. Elsie Inglis plaque in the High Street
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Dr. Elsie Inglis plaque in the High Street
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 15 Jan 2011
A medallion commemorating Dr. Elsie Inglis, Scotland's greatest heroine of the Great War. It is on the facade of the Hospice she opened in the High Street in 1904 to assist poor women during pregnancy and confinement. It amalgamated with the Bruntsfield Hospital in 1910. Her name, though not of course her reputation, was unfortunately tarnished by association when the privately-run Elsie Inglis Nursing Home, in the former maternity hospital named after her, was closed down by the authorities in the summer of 2011 because of patient neglect. Image
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Image Location
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55.94985
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-3.190872