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Eaglesham Road, GLASGOW, G75 8RG

Bus stop and Cycle parking outside main entrance.

The picture looks along Eaglesham Road from the bus stop below Hairmyres Hospital car park. The ramp at right gives pedestrian access to the car park and thus the hospital.

The Histo-pathology Department is in the foreground and the Biochemistry Department is housed in the second part of the building.

Biochemistry Laboratory.

The A&E section of Hairmyres Hospital.

Having started life as the Lanarkshire Inebriate Reformatory (from 1904 to 1914), new buildings were added to form the Hairmyres Sanatorium and (TB) Colony - German POWs formed part of the construction team. It was opened in 1919. One famous patient was George Orwell who was admitted (under his real name of Eric Blair) in December 1947. His tuberculosis had been aggravated by his struggle to make his latest work, "The Last Man in Europe", his best book. He worked on the rough draft of this novel while at Hairmyres Hospital and finished it when he returned to Jura in July 1948. His publisher didn't like the title, so Orwell transposed the last two digits of the year of the work's completion and renamed in "1984". Orwell had been started on treatment with streptomycin, which he had obtained from a friend in America (where it had been discovered in 1944). Unfortunately he suffered side-effects and, although two other patients were successfully treated with his supply of this antibiotic, his treatment had to be stopped. Orwell died in January 1950.

The main sector at Hairmyres Hospital.

The clinic and hospital wards at Hairmyres Hospital.

This was the original hospital which was built as the Lanarkshire Inebriate Reformatory in 1904. The buildings were later used as accommodation for male nursing staff and were demolished in 1989.