Whats Aberdeen Like (City Life, Atmosphere etc.)?!?

[sara7000]

thnx jus did =)

[MedicineBoy]

how do you pronounce suttie? sorry i feel a bit stupid but i dont know who to ask! Nor do i want to phone up admissions! thanks

[JD scrubs]

how do you pronounce suttie? sorry i feel a bit stupid but i dont know who to ask! Nor do i want to phone up admissions! thanks

Suttie Centre = S-uh-tee

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[Frank E]

There is some fascinating history written in the tomes of the Medico-Chirurguical Society in Foresterhill and in the City Archives. There's an interesting article in the BMJ 8 April 1939 about the history of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

deep breath in too ;-P

I call it the Matthew Hay building or Matthew Hay Project, just because that's what I'm used to calling it.

Professor Matthew Hay originally had the notion of an integrated teaching hospital complex which is now on the Foresterhill-Royal Cornhill site. The main hospital originally was Woolmanhill, a history of which is written:

Early in 1739 the magistrates and town council of Aberdeen, then a Royal Burgh of 15,000, resolved to erect an infirmary for the burgh, for the care of the
"diseased and infirm poor . . . to supply the honest laborious poor with advice, medicine, and every necessary care," and to "help those deprived of their reason . . . there being no place for detaining and restraining such unhappy persons either from doing hurt to th'emselves- or others, and that they have not a proper diet,or the application of suitable medicines which might, by the blessing of God, tend to their Cure or recovery.LATER HISTORY OF THE ABERDEEN
MEDICAL SCHOOL BY JOHN CRAIG, N.B., M.R.C.P.Ed. BMJ 8 april 1939

Woolmanhill still houses GU medicine and Dermatology.

The burgeoning city's medical and surgical needs outgrew the hospitals.

Professor Matthew Hay _- was then the far-seeing head of the municipal health services, and to him Aberdeen Royal Infirmary was vouchsafed the vision of the concentration at Foresterhill of the Aberdeen hospitals and medical school and students' hostels, on a large common site on the outskirts
f the city.

The proposal was put to the town counci, University and they aquired the Foresterhill site with funding from the Aberdeen Common Good Fund and from the philanthropy of the people of Aberdeen.

It's a huge complex housing most of the hospital facilities in Aberdeen, the medical school, The Dental School, University of Aberdeen research facilities, the SAS, Hypernaric Centre, a few GP practices , a few private Occupational health practices

When to the university block are added the buildings, already planned, for anatomy and physiology; when the hostels for students and the out-patient departments are also built, then the great vision of a joint hospital scheme and medical school will be realized for the present. Professor Matthew Hay's dream is coming true:

The Great Depression and The Second World War ensued and the project was put on hold, until - in the last decade - through careful management of the University, the dream of the Joint Hospital Scheme of Professor Hay became attainable again .

So we see, the naming of The Matthew Hay Project, the construction of anatomy and physiology teaching block on the foresterhill site was a fitting tribute to the selfless goal of Professor Hay, who has largely been forgotten.