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- Title
- Hospitals
- In
- The Companion to Tasmanian History
- Imprint
- Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2005
- Url
- https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hospitals.htm
- Abstract
The entry begins: "Hospitals in Van Diemen's Land were rudimentary: patients were treated by untrained staff in makeshift accommodation, and supplies of provisions, medicine and bedding were inadequate or defective. Home care by relatives or a hired nurse was preferable, and it was assumed that hospitals catered for the poor. By 1831 there were large government hospitals at Hobart (1804-, major building 1820), New Norfolk (1827-), Launceston (1808-) and Port Arthur (by 1831), and nine country towns had smaller 'hospitals', usually small huts, or single rooms attached to the gaol, used to save transporting local convicts to the larger centres. Most closed when the convict system ended."
And summarises the evolution of hospitals in Tasmania until 2004.
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- Editorial Committee, The companion to Tasmanian history, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2005. https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/About%20the%20Companion.htm. Details