ROYAL INFIRMARY
THE BICENTENARY. PRINCE OF WALES VISITS EDINBURGH SCHEME FOR ENLARGEMENT (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, June 12. The Prince of Wales visited Edinburgh to-day on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Royal Infirmary. On his arrival at the Royal Infirmary a large crowd welcomed him, while inside many of Edinburgh’s representative citizens and managers and heads of nursing and administrative staffs were presented to him. The Prince visiter! several of the wards and in the doctor’s room scratched his name on a table which bears the names of many distinguished visitors, including the King and Queen. On leaving the infirmary his Royal Highness visited the National War Memorial shrine at Edinburgh Castle. At a luncheon in the City Chambers the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in proposing the health of the Prince, said the great scheme of enlargement of the Royal Infirmary which was contemplated would cost £500,000, but he thought that sum would be raised now that his Royal Highness by his visit had drawn attention to their great institution. The Prince afterwards left by aeroplane for London.
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Southland Times, Issue 21109, 14 June 1930, Page 7
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180ROYAL INFIRMARY Southland Times, Issue 21109, 14 June 1930, Page 7
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