Corporate Body

Children's Hospital (1870 - 1953)

From
1870
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1953
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Hospitals or Clinics
Alternative Names
  • Hospital for Sick Children (Former name)

Summary

The Children's Hospital was established in 1870. The hospital was originally located in a small house in Stephen Street (now Exhibition Street), moving to larger premises in Spring Street in 1873 and to Carlton in 1875. In the 1920s and 1930s the hospital built an orthopaedic hospital at Mt Eliza to cope with problems such as poliomyelitis and tuberculosis. In 1953 the Children's Hospital was granted the prefix 'Royal', becoming the Royal Children's Hospital.

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 1870 - 1953 Children's Hospital
       1953 - Royal Children's Hospital

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See also

  • Dyason, D., 'The medical profession in colonial Victoria, 1834 - 1901' in Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion, Macleod, Roy and Lewis, Milton, eds (London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 194-216. Details

Ailie Smith

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