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Sepia photograph of soldiers and nurses on front and back cover. Portrait of the author, Bruce Ford on back cover also, Title on front cover and spine in black print on orange background. Authors name in white print on black background on front cover. Authors name in black print on spine. Donation sticker also on front cover. Contains numerous black and white illustrations

A history of Caulfield General Medical Centre, including the No 11 Army General Hospital/Caulfield Rehabilitation Hospital and the Royal Southern memorial Hospital Adapting rehabilitation to changing conditions of two World Wars, polio outbreaks to care of the elderly and accident victims

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Sepia photograph of two nurses on front cover, along with title and authors names. Title and authors names also printed on spine. Back cover has photographs and information about the authors along with a photograph of the Bendigo Base Hospital badge. Numerous black and white photographs and illustrations within

A history of nurse training at the Bendigo Hospital

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Item that was used daily for patient ablutions. Would have been used by Alfred hospital nurses on a daily basis. Many of our membership would have memories of using this item. The item is marked with the ward as items sometimes were borrowed or used by different wards or areas of the hospital so labeling was essential for staff to retrieve their equipment back.

Item that was used daily for patient ablutions. Would have been used by Alfred hospital nurses on a daily basis. Many of our membership would have memories of using and servicing/cleaning this item. The item is also a good example of wares made by K.G. Luke Pty Ltd.

Large monelmetal wash bowl. Bowl is round and made of metal. It has 2 cracks on the rim. It has numerous dents and small scratches from use. On the base/underside of the bowl is an inscription from the maker and additional inscription from it's use on "Ward 5 - Alfred Hospital"

PARAMOUNT/ WARE/ K.G. LUKE/ MELBOURNE/ ALFRED/ HOSPITAL/ WARD 5/

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Item engraved with MCH (Margaret Coles maternity wing at the Alfred Hospital). MCH opened in 1943. "This maternity wing, which has been named after Mrs Coles, wife of Mr G. J. Coles, who gave more than £35,000 toward it." "The hospital's Margaret Coles House delivered maternity services from 1943-1984."

An item that was used in MCH which is no longer in existence.

Triangular with three bars of equal size with diamond shaped engraved crest

1st/ Floor/ M.C.H. / Hexagram star shaped emblem/ scroll inscribed

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Green background, title on front cover and spine. Coloured print of the Bendigo Gold District Hospital [ca 1880']. Dustjacket same format Contains many black and white illustrations within.

A history of the Bendigo Hospital from its beginning in 1853, with the erection of a small slab and stone hospital to care for the diggers on the Bendigo goldfields, and its growth to a large regional medical institution

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buff coloured manilla folder containing typed notes, purple stamp on front cover with staple marks from removed staples, handwritten annotations and 2 quiz sheets

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed the Intensive Care Course.

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Hardcover is dark blue, with title, author and publisher printed in gold on spine. Dust jacket has light grey background on front and spine. Title and author in black print on front and spine. Front cover also has three photos. Back cover has white background with phot of hospital badge. Book includes 144 illustrations

A history of Ballarat Base Hospital from the 1850's to the 1980's

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buff coloured manilla folder containing typed notes.

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed nursing training, staffing and a renal-respiratory intensive care course.

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buff coloured manilla folder containing typed notes.

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed nursing training, staffing and a renal-respiratory intensive care course.

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Loose light grey coloured manilla front and back covers containing typed notes with staple marks from removed staples, handwritten annotations

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Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed the Intensive Care Course.

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buff coloured unbound folder containing typed notes, purple stamp on front cover with staple marks from removed staples, handwritten annotations

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed the Intensive Care Course.

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buff coloured manilla folder containing typed notes, purple stamp on front cover with staple marks from removed staples, handwritten annotations

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed the Intensive Care Course.

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buff coloured manilla folder containing typed notes, purple stamp on front cover with staple marks from removed staples, handwritten and hand coloured annotations

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed the Intensive Care Course.

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Dark blue binding, with title and authors names embossed on spine. Dust jacket has dark blue background, tile and authors names in whit print on front cover and spine. Reproduction of detail of the painting 'The good Samaritan' by Vincent van Gogh also on front cover. Numerous illustrations (mainly Photos) within

Official Centenary history of the Austin Hospital in Heidelberg, from its founding as the Austin Hospital for Incurables in 1882 with an endowment by Mrs Elizabeth Austin. As well as the hospitals history it includes the Devlopment of medical and nursing care during that time

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This equipment was located in the outpatients department (Philip Block) until September 2021 when it was deemed obsolete by Infection Prevention. Hubert Ingham Clements (1886-1969) was an Australian engineer who established his own engineering business in NSW in 1908 manufacturing combustion engines. He became interested in anaesthesia equipment and from the 1920s Clements worked on improving ether apparatus and manufacturing portable suction machines for use in hospital operating theatres. The latter machines were to earn an unrivalled reputation for reliability; many remained in service over thirty years after their date of production. The business became H. I. Clements & Son when his son William joined the company. (https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clements-hubert-ingham-12846)

Item is an example of equipment from its time period and is of historic significance.

Portable Clements Suction & Pressure Pump built by H I Clements & Son Ltd Consists of motor with attached carry handle, attached pressure regulator, attached disposable drainage cannister with tubing and power cable mounted on a trolley with castors.

H I Clements & Son Pty. Ltd. Metal Manufacturing label with: Serial Number 1725FS and SAA Certificate Number BCG/4S/60194 on motor (front side) Ward 11 engraved on motor handle AH Biomedical Engineering orange test due sticker and AH Biomedical blue test sticker (reverse side)

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Cover has black background title and authors name in white print on front and spine. Black and white photo of Judith Palfrey (Mullaney) as a 3rd year nurse on front. Description of book, author information and two photos of hospital words on back cover. Photos of nursing students within

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Recollections of 28 middle-aged women of their nursing training that they undertook together at the Alfred Hospital in the 1960's. What nursing has meant to this group, how it changed them as people, and if they identified as nurses whether they work in nursing or not, were questions addressed in this book

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for use by the kitchen staff for weighing food portion sizes

item used daily in the kitchens at The Alfred Hospital

yellow metal weighing device, fan shaped on rectangular metal base, window with imperial scale on face, regulating screw on left upper aspect of body, spring loaded metal plate to support glass dish on upper surface. Glass dish to hold item to be weighed separate to base unit

DIETITIAN/Persinware/MADE IN/AUSTRALIA

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The business was specialised in making salt-glazed stoneware articles, including utilitarian or decorative bottles, jugs and jars, much of it intended for inns and pubs. The backbone of the business was a wide range of utilitarian wares, mostly stone wares, including storage jars, tankards and the like, and later extending to pipes for drains, lavatories and other bathroom ceramics. From 1853 to 1902 its wares were marked Doulton & Co., then from 1902, when a royal warrant was given, Royal Doulton. The company always made some more decorative items, initially still mostly stoneware, and from the 1860s the firm made considerable efforts to get a reputation for design, in which it was largely successful, as one of the first British makers of art pottery. Initially, this was done through artistic stoneware's made in Lambeth, but in 1882 the firm bought a Burslem factory, which was mainly intended for making bone china table wares and decorative items.

An early utilitarian stoneware item made by a well-known company that specialised in making salt-glazed items that later earned a reputation for making stoneware art objects.

brown glazed earthenware bottle, circular grooves at throat of bottle x 3, cylindrical shape, narrow neck, makers stamp on side, large chip at opening, multiple small chips on sides. no stopper. paper label taped to front -Baked clay jar unearthed during demolition of the Edward Wilson Wing 1999

Doulton Lambeth stamp base of front - makers mark. label -paper label taped to front -Baked clay jar unearthed during demolition of the Edward Wilson Wing 1999

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White binding, title in red and black writing, some group G nurses photos and AHNL badge on front cover

non-fiction

significant record of nursing at the Alfred Hospital in the late 1950's-early 1960's and is accompanied by pictures, stories, anecdotes and documents of that period

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Manilla floder yellowed. Staples have been removed. 79 pages. Markings from sticky tape that has been removed

Blue green book, title and authors names in gold lettering embossed on spine. Dust jacket also blue green, title in red print, authors in black print on both front and spine. Photo of Baker Insitute Award (sculpture by Michael Meszaros) on front. List of contributors on back

non-fiction

memoirs of Baker Medical Research Institute alumni

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used by all Alfred Nurses (and other employees who had hospital supplied uniforms)

Significant to all Alfred Nurse (and other staff who had hospital supplied uniforms) as they were required to use the dockets

2 Laundry docket books. Triplicate pages.. each white, pink and yellow. Cardboard back, Green paper cover, staples

Cover blank, inside the pages are marked Alfred Hospital personal linen. Name, date and box number. Items of uniform listed

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Laundry bags were a requirement for all Alfred nurses to use for uniforms to go in the laundry box for cleaning

historical significance

bag made from cotton, brown with white and orange daisy print. White tape as a drawstring

Cash's name tag sewn bottom right hand corner white with black letters "A.L.Bryant"

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all nurses at the Alfred Hospital were required to use these boxes to send uniforms to laundry, also all hospital staff who had uniforms supplied. (from previous catalogue): All nursing staff wore hospital supplied uniforms for much of the twentieth century. The Royal Melbourne Hospital ran the 'Central Linen Service' for during this time - doing all the laundry for all the public hospitals in Melbourne. Staff uniforms were laundered separately, everyone had their own numbered laundry case. Staff also had a small printed docket book with duplicate copies (complete with a piece of carbon paper) and the number of uniform items were detailed when the case was sent off to the laundry. Cases had to be in the 'laundry room' at a set time each week, clean laundry returned at the same time each week and it usually took 10-15 minutes to find your case in the very full laundry room the day it came back.

Significant to the AHNL as all nurses were required to have one (from previous catalogue): The laundry box system shows what a complex and detailed system was required to keep staff clean and tidy.

Brown heavy cardboard reinforced case and lid with locks on either end, plastic corner protectors, metal split pins, metal reinforced edges Both ends box identification number. A cross (X) formed by blue and yellow plastic tape and a navy blue round sticker

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Central Linen Service and Group Laundry (printed on white circular sticker) hand written number E171. Also old catalogue number. (from old catalogue)Sticker stating Royal Melbourne Hospital Central Linen Service and on outside number of box E 171 (E was the identifier of the Alfred) for identification purposes.

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1905-1933.The bandage winding machine wound calico bandages for patient use. A sheet of calico was torn into strips of differing widths and a length of around 8 feet or 240 cm. The bandage was wound around the handle shaft, by hand initially, to get purchase, then the handle was turned until the bandage was tightly wound. Bandages were reused after being washed, dried and rewound on the machine.

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An open wooden frame with six horizontal struts. At the top of the frame is a metal shaft which winds and holds the calico bandage. . It sits on a solid wooden base, 4 curved corners. 2 solid wooden end plates.

Marked from Ward 1 on outside of end plate in black ink

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[original catalog worksheet not found as of 14/10/2024]

None

Weathered wooden sign.Cream paint with areas of exposed wood.School of. Black hand painted print.Three holes on either end of printed title where sign was secured to unknown building or wall.

(School of nursing)

buff coloured manilla folder containing typed notes, purple stamp on front cover with staple marks from removed staples, handwritten annotations

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed the Intensive Care Course.

nurse lecture notes from 1970s, alfred hospital, nursing training, anaesthetics

buff coloured manilla folder containing typed notes. staple mark from removed staples, handwritten underlined annotations.

non-fiction

Alfred Hospital Medical Nursing lecture notes [ca. 1973-1976] - belonged to Susan Kim Hollands (2/73). Kim has been an AHNL member for many years, is now an archive volunteer. Her career was at the Alfred until 1980, during which time she completed nursing training, staffing and a renal-respiratory intensive care course.

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