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Book documenting the efforts to establish and build the Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital
Book documents history leading to construction of Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital
Hard cover book A most ingenious hospital a history of Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital 1940-1990 by Harry W Nunn
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![Black and White photograph of The Alfred, Plate 8 Alfred Hospital 1870 [page 33] Included in Ann M Mitchell book The Hospital South of the Yarra A history of Alfred Hospital Melbourne from foundation to the nineteen-forties Alfred Hospital Melbourne 1977, Just prior to 1870 and certainly before The Alfred opened in 1871](https://victoriancollections.net.au/media/collectors/52f0757a9821f40464f73cc3/items/56ef72b52162f1147c76b09f/item-media/56ef73652162f1147c76cd61/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
Earliest photograph of The Alfred immediately prior to its first treating patients on 6 March 1871.
Black and White Photograph
Endorsed on back in pencil Alfred Hospital 1870
the alfred, 1870, hospital
Key document recording history of hospitals located on Caulfield Hospital site since 1916.
Key document outlining medical treatment research and training on Caulfield Hospital site in Kooyong Road Melbourne
Paper back edition of The wounded warrior and rehabilitation: including the history of no. 11 Army General Hospital - Caulfield Rehabilitation Hospital Published by The Alfred Healthcare Group [Caulfield general Medical Centre] 1966 by Bruce Ford former Medical Director of Caulfield Hospital
Unmarked
history, hospital, caulfield, no 11 army general hospital, repatriation hospital caulfield, convalescent hospital caulfield, caulfield general medical centre, southern memorial hospital [later renamed royal southern memorial hospital], artificial limb factory [rehabtech]
Board of Management of The Alfred commissioned Ann M Mitchell to write a history of the hospital from its foundation until the nineteen-forties. The hospital treated its first outpatient on 6 March 1871 and its first inpatient on 13 March 1871.
Book details major milestones of hospital's history from 1860's including its naming after Prince Alfred. Records major achievements including important treatment, teaching and research. Lists many important personnel including doctors, nurses, matrons and Board Members.
Small Book 299 Pages Red Cover
The Hospital South of the Yarra, Ann M Mitchell
the alfred, history, 1871, 1940's, medical, patients, health, hospital
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