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This book of home tested recipes has been compiled by friends and staff members of the Ballarat and District Base Hospital. All proceeds to the Hospital's 1969 Appeal.
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L-R: Norma Moulton (CSSD), Ralf Stout (CSSD), Sr Joyce Eckersley (Assistant Matron), Sr Nell Edmonston, Sr Lois Baker (CSSD).
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Jane Smyth, Certificate for Ballarat District Hospital, 5th April 1892 and photo in uniform
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Edna Slater, Certificate for General Nursing, September 1923 & Nurse Registration, Victoria, 1926
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Edna Slater, Certificate from Training School for Nurses, Ballarat District Hospital, 9th December 1922
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Muriel Slater, Australian Army Nursing Service Appointment, 22nd May 1917 - Record of Service 24.4.1917 to 16.8.1919. Muriel Matthew Slater started her nursing training the day of her 21st birthday. When she became a fully trained nurse she joined the army nursing service and sailed for India on the Khiva. She was stationed ar Dealali Internment Camp - mostly German and Turkish POW's. After 2 years in India she was sent via Egypt to the UK and spent some months between Harefield Hospital in London and others in the UK. She sailed home on the Karragolia where she met Lt T H. Scholfield MC, MM (21st Bat). They married in 1922 and had a son and 2 daughters. Muriel's younger sister Edna Maude Slater also trained at the Ballarat District Hospital.
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Muriel Slater, Certificate for General Nursing, 1st June 1916. The Royal Victorian Trained Nurses' Association. Training completed at the Ballarat Base Hospital.
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WW11 Nurse - lost her life, 16th February 1942, in the Bangka Island massacre, east of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Sr Sandra Dickson, c.1974, Casualty Department, Ballarat Base Hospital
Digital Copy
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Stuart Williamson, Charge Nurse, with baby - Midwifery Training 1984 to 1985, first male midwife, Ballarat Base Hospital
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Thermometer - Gears Pharmacies, Ballarat. G H Zeal, English Made Guaranteed, No 64.
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Breast Pump - brand ContiMed - from c.1950s era.
Orange rubber bulb with glass attachment. In original cardboard box.
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WW1 Diary, original & transcribed - Priscilla Wardle - Trainee Ballarat District Hospital, 1905 to 1908 and WW1 Nurse.
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L-R: Nrs ? Couzner, ? Bond, Mary Crawford, ? Menzel, Frances Vaughan, Elsa Wilkie, Grace Knottman. Front L-R: Nrs Mavis Orr & Muriel Nicholls
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L-R: Collin, Angus, Bill Hudson, Nr Sharpley, Mabel, Bob, Nr Edmonds, Mr Hofferman, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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L-R: Nr Marion Firth, Nr Alice Fechner, Nr Lois King, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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L-R: Nr Bronwen Thomas & Nr Alice Fechner, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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L-R: Nr Sheila Prendergast, Sr Dorothy Roberts, Donny, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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Sr Anna Barry, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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Matron J. M. (Maisie) Little, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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Sr Betty Crisp & Dr Lipshut, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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? Symons & Sr Ruth Tippett, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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L-R Mildred McCoy, Doreen Fry, Jean McCready, Sheila Prendergast - nursing friends, 1940s, Ballarat, Hospital - tennis fun
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L-R: Sheila Prendergast, Sr Dorothy Roberts, ? Trask, 1940s. Ballarat, Hospital
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Photo No 122 - L-R: Nr Auty, Nr Wilkie, Nr Ying, Bill Lewis, Sr Orr, 1940s. Ballarat & District Hospital Photo No 114 - L-R: Drs Trudinger & Chenhall and Bill Lewis, middle with cap
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Nrs Elsa Wilkie, Elsa Knottman, Margaret Ying, Alice Fechner, Sheila Prendergast, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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Sr Dorothy Roberts, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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L-R: Drs Lipshut, Noel Chenhall, Bill Lewis, L.R. Trudinger, Scbatzki
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Sr Harvey, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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L-R: Sr Lacy, Dr Lipshut, Dr Chenhall, Matron Little, 1940s, Ballarat & District Hospital
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