The Babies’ Hospital at St Peters was established in 1915 by the Babies’ Hospital Association. It took over the role of caring for sick infants under the age of two from Quambi Nursing Home in North Adelaide. In 1917 the Hospital moved to new premises in Woodville and became known as the Mareeba Babies’ Hospital….
McBride Hospital was the new name given to the Salvation Army run McBride Maternity Hospital in 1975. Situated in Medindie it ceased to operate as a maternity hospital in 1978 and became a convalescent hospital with a small hostel for single mothers and their babies. The hostel ceased operating in 1983 and the convalescent hospital…
The Mareeba Babies’ Hospital was established in Woodville in 1917. It took over the role of the St Peters Babies’ Hospital caring for sick infants under the age of two. Originally under the control of the Inspector General of Hospitals, with the Babies Hospital Association acting in an advisory role, it came under the control…
The Adelaide Children’s Hospital opened in 1879 in North Adelaide. It was run by a board of management and funded by donations, fund raising and government subsidies. The Adelaide Children’s Hospital ran the Queen Victoria Convalescent Home for Children at Mount Lofty and Mareeba Babies Hospital. It also purchased and ran Estcourt House at Tennyson….
The McBride Maternity Hospital was opened by the Salvation Army at Briar Avenue, Medindie on 28th January 1914. It took over the work of the Adelaide Maternity Home and provided accommodation and maternity services for single mothers and their babies, as well as public maternity patients. Many babies were adopted out from the hospital. In…
Adelaide Maternity Home was established by the Salvation Army in Gilbert Street, Adelaide in 1893 for the care of pregnant and unmarried young women. It moved to Morphett Street in 1895 and then to Carrington Street in 1899. In 1914 McBride Maternity Hospital opened in the suburb of Medindie and took over the work of…
Mater Mothers’ Hospital, in Brisbane, officially opened in 1960. (The Hospital’s foundation stone was blessed by Cardinal Spellman of New York and Archbishop Duhig of Brisbane in May 1948.) Mater Mothers’ Hospital was mentioned in the Commonwealth Contribution to Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices Inquiry (2012) as an institution that was involved in forced…
The Baillie Henderson Hospital, in Toowoomba, is a public specialist psychiatric hospital. It opened in 1968 and was still operating in 2014.
The Glenties Mothers’ Hospital, in Rockhampton, was run by the Salvation Army. Until 1924, it had been known as the Glenties Rescue Home. It provided care for babies awaiting adoption, and young girls who were pregnant, destitute or homeless. It also functioned as a private maternity hospital for married women. In 1938, it was renamed…
The Bethesda Hospital and Hostel, in Rockhampton, was run by the Salvation Army. It opened in 1968. Previously it was known as the Bethesda Mothers’ Hospital. It was renamed Bethesda Hostel in 1970.
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