Physical description

Dark blue hardcover book with a grey dustjacket. The title and author details are printed along the spine in black text. The cover has the author's name acrsoo the top in purple print, followed by a black line and then the title in large black print and another balck line. Beneath this are two oval templates with photographs of a nurse in each one and the subtitle is written between the two. At the bottom of the cover is a drawing of the Ballarat Hospital from the early 1900s.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

Here is the story of the public hospital at Ballarat - from its uncertain beginnings in the goldrush era to its emergence as one of Victoria's major regional health centres....This book celebrates an institution whose long history is intricately entwined with that of its city and its country. - from inside dustjacket.