nurses, unionism, badges, buttons, pins, trade unions, labour history, australian nursing federation, staffing, workforce, patient careCircular red plastic badge. Silver metal, plastic-coated, with safety pin fastener adhered to back. Badge printed with 'UNSHACKLE MENTAL HEALTH', the ANF [Australian Nursing Federation] logo and an image of broken chains and shackles.nurses, mental health, nursing, unionism, badges, buttons, pins, trade unions, labour history, australian nursing federation, funding

This image appears to show nurses at what is now the Mayday Hills Mental Asylum arriving for work in approximately 1900. These individuals are part of a long history of nursing in Beechworth. Three medical or social welfare facilities opened in the mid-1800s as part of a push by the township to become a regional centre for Government services. These were the Ovens District Hospital (opened in 1857), the Ovens Benevolent Asylum (opened in 1863), and the Beechworth Mental Hospital (opened in 1867 and renamed Mayday Hills Hospital at Centenary celebrations in 1967). It was recognised that the unsettled living conditions, poverty and relative isolation of the Goldfields environment could produce 'mental disturbances' which required local treatment facilities as services in Melbourne were too far away. Carole Woods' publication 'A Titan's Field' describes activities undertaken by patients at Beechworth Mental Hospital as including monthly balls and occasional concerts as well as work to make the facility self-supporting such as farm work and making clothes. She mentions a report in 1870 that the approximately 300 patients were clean and neat with 'no-one in restraint or seclusion' but that by 1905 the organisation had 623 patients which placed strain on building infrastructure such as heating and water supplies, leading to high turnover of nurses and other issues. A program of building works to extend and improve facilities followed over subsequent decades. Lantern slides, sometimes called 'magic lantern' slides, are glass plates on which an image has been secured for the purpose of projection. Glass slides were etched or hand-painted for this purpose from the Eighteenth Century but the process became more popular and accessible to the public with the development of photographic-emulsion slides used with a 'Magic Lantern' device in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Photographic lantern slides comprise a double-negative emulsion layer (forming a positive image) between thin glass plates that are bound together. A number of processes existed to form and bind the emulsion layer to the base plate, including the albumen, wet plate collodion, gelatine dry plate and Woodburytype techniques. Lantern slides and magic lantern technologies are seen as foundational precursors to the development of modern photography and film-making techniques This glass slide is significant because it provides insight into Beechworth's social and medical amenities in the early Twentieth Century, around the time of Australia's Federation into one nation. It is also an example of an early photographic and film-making technology in use in regional Victoria in the time period.Thin translucent sheet of glass with a rectangular image printed on the front and framed in a black backing. It is held together by metals strips to secure the edges of the slide.Obverse: i /burke museum, beechworth, lantern slide, slide, glass slide, plate, burke museum collection, photograph, monochrome, magic lantern, indigo shire, north-east victoria, nineteenth century, 1900s, twentieth century, emulsion slides, nursing, nurses, mental hospitals, lunatic asylums, asylums, social services, social welfare, insane asylums, mental health, infrastructure

This image appears to show nurses at what is now the Mayday Hills Mental Asylum in approximately 1900. These individuals are part of a long history of nursing in Beechworth. Three medical or social welfare facilities opened in the mid-1800s as part of a push by the township to become a regional centre for Government services. These were the Ovens District Hospital (opened in 1857), the Ovens Benevolent Asylum (opened in 1863), and the Beechworth Mental Hospital (opened in 1867 and renamed Mayday Hills Hospital at Centenary celebrations in 1967). It was recognised that the unsettled living conditions, poverty and relative isolation of the Goldfields environment could produce 'mental disturbances' which required local treatment facilities as services in Melbourne were too far away. Carole Woods' publication 'A Titan's Field' describes activities undertaken by patients at Beechworth Mental Hospital as including monthly balls and occasional concerts as well as work to make the facility self-supporting such as farm work and making clothes. She mentions a report in 1870 that the approximately 300 patients were clean and neat with 'no-one in restraint or seclusion' but that by 1905 the organisation had 623 patients which placed strain on building infrastructure such as heating and water supplies, leading to high turnover of nurses and other issues. A program of building works to extend and improve facilities followed over subsequent decades. Lantern slides, sometimes called 'magic lantern' slides, are glass plates on which an image has been secured for the purpose of projection. Glass slides were etched or hand-painted for this purpose from the Eighteenth Century but the process became more popular and accessible to the public with the development of photographic-emulsion slides used with a 'Magic Lantern' device in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Photographic lantern slides comprise a double-negative emulsion layer (forming a positive image) between thin glass plates that are bound together. A number of processes existed to form and bind the emulsion layer to the base plate, including the albumen, wet plate collodion, gelatine dry plate and Woodburytype techniques. Lantern slides and magic lantern technologies are seen as foundational precursors to the development of modern photography and film-making techniques.This glass slide is significant because it provides insight into Beechworth's social and medical amenities in the early Twentieth Century, around the time of Australia's Federation into one nation. It is also an example of an early photographic and film-making technology in use in regional Victoria in the time period.Thin translucent sheet of glass with a circular image printed on the front and framed in a black backing. It is held together by metals strips to secure the edges of the slide.burke museum, beechworth, lantern slide, slide, glass slide, plate, burke museum collection, photograph, monochrome, magic lantern, indigo shire, north-east victoria, nineteenth century, 1900s, twentieth century, emulsion slides, nursing, nurses, mental hospitals, lunatic asylums, asylums, social services, social welfare, insane asylums, mental health, infrastructure

With the advent of electricity, so to came the invention of the Electrocardiograph Machine. This piece of medical equipment gave nursing staff and doctors a more precise indication of a patients heart beat and was used extensively across Victoria's medical institutions. The equipment is significant because it is a fully intact example of diagnostic equipment used in a mental health hospital in Victoria Australia.Cardiotrace Electrocardiograph Machine in blue plastic case with black handle. Contains: Electric cord Cords to link electrodes Graph paper to measure heart beats Instruments on panel marked 'stylus heat', 'off', 'run', 'position', 'test', 'record', '1', '2', '3', 'aVR', 'aVL', 'aVP', 'V', '1/2V', 'lmV', marker.Manufacturer: Medical Instrument Co. Pty. Ltd. Distributor: Watson Victor Limited Serial No: 3362 Cardiotrace Heat Mark III Electrocardiograph/Voltage 220-240 A/C /Frequency 50 cycles per second/Watts 45 serial 3362/Caution: Refer to Manual for full detail.electrocardiograph machine, medical instrument, medicine, health, mental health, ararat mental hospital, j ward

Illustrated book with dustjacket. Book is bound in light brown with white print. There is a stylized image of fencing on the front cover. Abbreviated title, author's name and publisher's mark are printed on the spine. Dust-jacket is a dappled olive green on the front, and plain olive green on spine and back. Title is printed in olive-green, and white on olive green background, along with author's name (white print on brown background) and stylize image of fencing (white and olive-green print) on the front of the dustjacket. Abbreviated title (cream ink) author's name (brown in on cream background) and publisher's mark are printed on the spine.non-fictionThis book describes the rapid expansion of community psychiatric centres in Australia, particularly Victoria, as a shift from traditional asylum-based care. Dax (author) a key figure in this transformation, advocated for a more humane and community-focused approach to mental health treatment.mental health services-victoria-history, mental health services-history-australia

Illustrated stapled magazine. Front cover in addition to title and listing of main artickes has a coloured photograph of a doctor sitting at a desk, with a women answeing a phone in the background. Page with book review includes a colour photograph of the front cover of '5.30 nurse! :the story of the Alfred nurses'non-fictionBook review of '5.30 nurse! :the story of the Alfred nurses', magazine also includes other interesting health care articles nursing history, alfred hospital alfred hospital school of nursing, hospital infomatics, electronic medical records, day surgery, hospial computers, mental health - doctors, mental health - nurses

Metal brooch with pin fastener.Face: "PSYCHIATRIC NURSING"nurse badges, psychiatric nursing, mental health service

Notice of Ordinary Meeting of the Council 24th November 2026 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Dates for Ordinary Meetings of the Council Meals on Wheels September 1981 Quarter Private Street Construction Scheme Right of Way East of Sydney Street, King Edward Avenue and Forrest Street Albion Percy Street and Beaver Street Reserve St. Albans General Valuation City of Sunshine Proposed to Discontinue Part of Charlotte Street South of Hall Street Sunshine West Street Closure Ralston Avenue Sunshine North School Holiday Programmes 1st Maidstone Scout Group Lease Dobson Reserve Maidstone Proposed Change of Name of Suffolk Street between Church Street and Summerhill Road Maidstone to Shorten Street in Honour of City of Footscray Councillor Cr. Kevin Shorten Pensioner rate Assistance Scheme 1981/82 Proposed Compulsory Acquisition Lot 99 Pizzey Street Sunshine Rates Recovery Sale Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services CYSS Closure Over Christmas Period Sunshine West Multi-Cultural Club Polish Day Booklet Considering a Nursing Home Resident Caretaker / Cleaner Lions House of Sunshine Senior Citizens' Club Children's Fun Day Celebrations Migrants and Review of Mental Health Legislation Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Report of the Inspector of Weights and Measures Maternal & Infant Welfare in Service Training Courses Shire of Werribee Industrial Action Health Act 1958 Section 44(1) Nuisance Lot 5 Justin Road Tottenham Health Act Registrations Application for Transfer of Proprietorship of Premises Under the Health Act Australian Institute of Health Surveyors Conference Sydney 28th September 1981 to 2nd October 1981 Report Report of the Medical Officer of Health Report of the Superintendent Traffic & By-Laws Naming of Reserves Place Names Committee Report of the City Librarian Report of the Project Officer Rainbow Workshop Music 81 Report of the City Engineer & Planner Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Amending Scheme No 157 Van Ness Avenue Humes Land Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Amending Scheme No Lots 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 & 20 Withers Street Sunshine Planning Permit Application Social and Sporting Complex Raleigh Reserve (Maribyrnong Reserve) Raleigh Road Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Amusement Parlour 54A Station Place Sunshine Amended Planning Permit Banking Premises Commonwealth Bank of Australia 288 Hampshire Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application Sky Sign Neale Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Floodlit Business Sign (Price Board) BP Service Station 439 Ballarat Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application Extension to Existing Christ The King Primary School Churchill Avenue Bounded by Athol Street, Riley Court, Margaret Crescent & Cross Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Motor Repair Station and Panel Beating 1 Bank Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Sky Sign 88 - 90 Berkshire Road North West Corner Steers Street Planning Permit Application Sky Sign 88 - 90 Berkshire Road North West Corner Steers Street Planning Permit Application Three Phase Power Connection 336 Hampshire Crescent Planning Permit Application Service Premises Corner St. Albans Road and Percy Street St. Albans Planning Permit Application Floodlit Business sign (Price Board) Lot 1 Geelong Road Corner Burgess Road Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Waste Disposal Site McIntyre Road Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Commercial Vehicle Park Sims Supermarkets 89 Station Road North West Corner Canterbury Street Deer Park Delegated Matters Creation of Easement Ralph Street Reserve Sunshine West Local Government (Land Liable to Flooding) Act 1979 Designation of Flood level Maribyrnong River Report Proposed Plan of Consolidation Lots 2 & 3 Geelong Road Brooklyn Proposed Plan of Consolidation 552A Geelong Road Brooklyn The Brooklyn Transport and Storage Division of Green McCandish Ltd Proposed Plan of Consolidation St. Marks Church of England Anderson Road and Sun Crescent Plan of Subdivision Reid Street Ardeer Boral Resources (Vic) Pty Ltd Plan of Subdivision Station Road North East Corner Middle Road Deer Park I.C.I. Australia Limited Appeal to Arbitrator Annual Supply Contract Bituminous Concrete Proposed Transfer and Consolidation 19 Baird Street Maidstone Installation of Fire Hydrants M.M.B.W. Availability of Sewers Diamond Avenue and Appian Drive Albanvale Boundary Road Reconstruction from Little Boundary Road to Fitzgerald Road Joint Works Werribee Shire Construction Authority Report of the Building Surveyor Building Over Easement Lot 574 Quinn Street Deer Park Schedule for Authorising of Affixing the Common Seal of the Municipality to Documents Orders of the Day Proposal to Construct Right of Way East of Sydney Street, King Edward Avenue and Forrest Street Albion Under the Provision of Division 10 of Part XIX of the Local Government Act 1958sydney street, king edward avenue, forrest street, albion, percy street, beaver street, st. albans, charlotte street, sunshine west, ralston avenue, sunshine north, 1st maidstone scout group, dobson reserve, churchill avenue, maidstone, suffolk street, pizzey street, lions house of sunshine senior citizens' club, watt street, corio street, sunshine, justin road, tottenham, van ness avenue, humes land, maribyrnong, withers street, maribyrnong reserve, raleigh road, hortense street, raleigh reserve, station place, hampshire road, neale road, deer park, ballarat road, christ the king primary school, athol street, riley court, margaret crescent, cross street, bank street, berkshire road, steers street, hampshire crescent, st. albans road, geelong road, burgess road, brooklyn, mcintyre road, sims, station road, canterbury street, ralph street reserve, ralph street, maribyrnong river, green mccandish ltd, st. marks church, anderson road, sun crescent, reid street, ardeer, boral resources, middle road, i.c.i., baird street, diamond avenue, appian drive, albanvale, little boundary road, fitzgerald road, quinn street