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.
Published resources
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-565799. Details
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
Created: 9 April 2003, Last modified: 10 January 2023