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Title: Lock may en hospital
Post by: dumfriesgirl1983 on Monday 26 September 16 20:45 BST (UK)

Looking for sum info on lockmaben hospital 1940 as my grate an tie on my mums side died there what was the use off the hospital then

Title: Re: Lock may en hospital
Post by: Gadget on Monday 26 September 16 21:02 BST (UK)

Hi

I think it was a Sanatorium

According to Wiki, it was an infectious diseases hospital

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Lochmaben Hospital was opened in 1905 as an infectious diseases hospital but, with the virtual demise of these diseases, it is now a modern 16 bed community facility caring for both physical and psychiatric problems.

Probably TB, etc.

Gadget

Title: Re: Lock may en hospital
Post by: imchad on Thursday 29 September 16 15:30 BST (UK)

Lochmaben hospital was mainly a TB hospital, certainly in 1940. If you look at your Auntie's death certificate it will tell you what she died of.