Lachlan Park Hospital, run by the government, replaced the Mental Diseases Hospital in 1937. It was in New Norfolk. Lachlan Park was a secure mental asylum which, in addition to adults, held children and adolescents, including wards of State. In 1968, it became part of the Royal Derwent Hospital. Lachlan Park was on the western…
The Contagious Diseases Hospital was established at the Female Factory, Cascades in 1879. Initially the government ran it but in 1895, the committee of the Home of Mercy, a Church of England rescue home, took it over. The Hospital was for women and girls suffering from sexually transmitted diseases. It closed in 1900. The Contagious…
Elim Maternity Hospital, run by the Salvation Army, opened in West Hobart in 1897. It was a rescue Home for young women, including teenagers, and a maternity hospital for single mothers. Many adoptions took place from Elim. It closed in about 1973. Elim occupied a two storey Victorian weatherboard building in Lansdowne Crescent, West Hobart….
Rock Lynn House, run by the Salvation Army, opened in 1895. Originally, it was a ‘rescue home’ for women and their babies, located in Charles Street, Launceston. By mid 1896, the rescue home had moved to larger premises in William Street, Launceston. In 1900, the home moved to ‘Rock Lynn’, a home on the Cataract…
The Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre was established in 1981 at Northfield by the amalgamation of the Northfield Wards of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Morris Hospital. Run by the Royal Adelaide Hospital it provided extended care and rehabilitation of both in-patients and out-patients. The Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre was still operating in 2014. The Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre…
The Adelaide Hospital opened in 1841 in Adelaide’s East Parklands and replaced the Colonial Infirmary. It was run by a board of management. In 1855 construction of a new larger hospital began on North Terrace. After the transfer of patients the old hospital building became part of the adjacent Adelaide Lunatic Asylum. In 1939 the…
The Quambi Nursing Home, North Adelaide, was established around 1910. It was a maternity home, run by Mrs Bartels. Around 1913, the Babies’ Hospital Association arranged for a tent to be sent up in the grounds of Quambi, for the care of sick babies, whose mothers could not afford the regular fees of a private…
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) was opened in 1954. It operated as a maternity hospital until 1959. In 2009 it was a 327 bed acute care teaching hospital that provided inpatient, outpatient, emergency and mental health services to the population of Adelaide’s western suburbs. It was still operating in 2014.
The Enfield Hospital was the new name given to the Enfield Receiving House in 1963. It continued to operate as a Receiving Home for people with mental health problems and people with intellectual disabilities, including children. State-children with intellectual disabilities continued to be sent to Enfield Hospital. On 1st July, 1979, Enfield Hospital was incorporated…
The Mareeba Children’s Annex of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital was the new name given to Mareeba Babies’ Hospital in 1960. Located in Woodville the Children’s Annex of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital continued to care for sick infants and premature babies. The Annex closed in 1969. In 1992 the original building of the Mareeba Children’s Annex…
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