Assistant Medical Superintendent of Mearnskirk Hospital 1929 - 1946
Medical Superintendent of Mearnskirk Hospital 1946 - 1961
Alexander Dale was born in Glasgow on 27th September 1901, the son of an assistant minister in the city. He graduated M.B., Ch.B. from the University of Glasgow in 1925. In 1929 he was appointed as Orthopaedic Surgeon and Assistant Superintendent to Dr Wilson. During the Second World War he acted as a General as well as an Orthopaedic Surgeon to civilian and service patients at Mearnskirk. Dr Dale became Superintendent of Mearnskirk on the death of Dr Wilson in 1946 and retired in 1961.