[2] Dr William Scott administered sulphuric ether, in the first use of anesthetics in the United Kingdom, at the High Dock facility in 1846.

[3] The hospital relocated to a new building at Nithbank which was designed by John Starforth, completed in 1873 and was extended in 1897.

[4] The hospital moved again this time to a facility at Bankend Road, which was designed by Boswell, Mitchell & Johnston and opened by the Queen in 1975.

[8] The hospital was designed by Ryder Architecture and NBBJ[9] and built by Laing O'Rourke[8] at a cost of £213 million.

[11] The hospital serves the town of Dumfries and the catchment area of South West Scotland with a population of c.150,000.