The hospital had its origins in a
public dispensary opened by
Sophia Jex-Blake at 73 Grove Street in September 1878. It moved to 6 Grove Street, a building large enough to provide in-patient services, as the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children in 1885. The hospital committee was led by well-connected women active in various social reform projects such as
Flora Stevenson. In 1910 the hospital merged with "The Hospice", a small maternity home which had been established by
Elsie Inglis and the Medical Women's Club at 11 George Square some eleven years previously. ==References==