Physical description

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has dark blue cover, with title and author's name printed in gilt ink on spine. Dust jacket has a coloured painting by Brian Dunlop, depicting two nurses standing either side of a patient in bed. Title (red and blue ink) and authors name (red ink) are superimposed on front cover and spine

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At lower right of front-end paper is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by'. AHNL handwritten in black ink along with previous catalogue number on this label. Previous catalogue number also written in black ink at top right-hand corner of this page

Summary

A history of Williamstown Hospital, from the first citizens meeting held in 1889 identifying the need for a local hospital, the hospitals opening with six beds in 1894, up until 1991