3-066-144 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Queen's visit to the new Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh, 1881. '...the Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and the Duke of Connaught, visited the new Royal Infirmary. Her Majesty was received by Lord Provost Boyd, Lord Shand, Sir James Falshaw, Treasurer Harrison, and several of the professors...The head-nurses in their white caps and smart dresses made a picturesque appearance...The Queen named Ward No. 29 of the Medical Department (Dr. Claude Muirhead's), after the late Prince Consort, the "Albert Ward"...She also visited Wards Nos. 10 and 12, and took much interest in the patients. Her Majesty was especially interested in the cases of several foreigners, and kindly inquired as to the cause of their ailments. Before leaving, the Queen wrote her signature, "Victoria R," in the visitors' book in the managers' room...While these proceedings were taking place Professor Sir Herbert Oakeley played "God Save the Queen" on the chapel organ, and her Majesty conversed with him for a minute or two before leaving the building. The Queen expressed to the Lord Provost her high satisfaction with all the arrangements, so far as she had been able to observe them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.