Blue plaque № 12017

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

On 6th August, 1729, the first voluntary hospital in Scotland was opened in a little house on this site, opposite the head of Robinson's Close. While still in that house in 1736, it became the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

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