Corporate Body

Adelaide Children's Hospital (1878 - 1989)

From
1878
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
To
1989
Functions
Hospitals or Clinics and Paediatrics

Summary

The Adelaide Children's Hospital was a charity hospital started by Dr Allan Campbell. In his proposal to address the quality of life and high premature death rates among destitute and poor children, he was supported by a group of prominent Adelaide citizens with members of the medical profession. The first in-patient was admitted in June 1879. In 1893 the first woman to graduate in medicine from the University of Adelaide, Laura Fowler, was appointed to the staff. The Hospital's first laboratory was established in 1897 to diagnose typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis. Other facilities ran by the Hospital included the Queen Victoria Convalescent Home for Children at Mount Lofty (1898 - 1940s) and the Mareeba Babies' Hospital, Woodville (1951 - 1960). From the 1970s parents were encouraged to be closely involved in the treatment of their children. In 1989 the Hospital amalgamated with the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital to become the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children (later the Women's and Children's Hospital).

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Published resources

Books

  • Nursing in South Australia : first hundred years 1837-1937 (Adelaide: South Australian Trained Nurses' Centenary Committee, 1938), 348 pp. Details
  • Barbalet, Margaret, The Adelaide Children's Hospital, 1876-1976 (North Adelaide: The Hospital, 1975), 224 pp. Details
  • Fotheringham, Brian, A continuing history of the Adelaide Children's Hospital, 1976-1989 (North Adelaide: Children, Youth and Women's Health Service, History and Heritage Committee, 2009), 76 pp. Details
  • Seidel, Marilyn, Our common bond : a history of nursing education at the Adelaide Children's Hospital, 1876-1989 (Norwood, S.A.: Peacock Publications, 2009), 288 pp. Details

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See also

Helen Cohn

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