Growing up in Lancashire Wigan an old mining town, nicks career’s started young. At the age of 9 he worked at a grocery. Grocery’s back then aren’t like the ones we have today, they were much more personalised instead of buying for the week you would buy for the day, because you couldn’t keep food […]
Tag: Hospital
The Austin Hospital for Incurables
Despite an existing shortage of accommodation, three wards of the Austin Hospital for Incurables were combined on 5 September, 1917 into what became known as the Military Ward (later No. 12 Ward) specifically for the treatment of tuberculosis patients, the effects of which were exacerbated by the influenza epidemic of 1918-19. The Ward appears to […]
The Mont Park Asylum
Lands at Mont Park were first considered for an asylum site in 1906 when the members of the Cabinet under the State Premier Mr Bent (later Sir Thomas Bent) and the Inspector-General for the Insane, Dr. Ernest Jones inspected 214 acres of land including the area known as Sugarloaf Hill. It was noted as conveniently located […]
The Queen’s Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital
What we know as the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital was also used by the A.I.F. during the latter years of the First World War and while the appellation was rarely used, it was officially No. 5 Infectious Diseases Hospital. What is not clear is when the A.I.F. started to use the hospital and just what […]
Elizabeth Austin
Elizabeth Austin was a Victorian pioneer and philanthropist during the late nineteenth century, driven to improve the lives of older and poorer women. Elizabeth, along with twenty exceptional women was inducted in 2012 on to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, as a part of International Women’s Day activities. Elizabeth and her husband Thomas built Winchelsea’s […]
Mont Park Hospital
The former Mont Park Hospital was located in Macleod near and on the site of LaTrobe University and Springthorpe Housing development. Mont Park mental asylum was opened in 1912, and in 1915 an army hospital opened for war injuries, disease and mental illness.
Northern Hospital
By Arthur B.W. Yong JP, Cr Frank Merlino and Maureen Corrigan OAM (2009) In 2009, Arthur Yong got hold of a press release entitled “Huge Funding Boost for Northern Health Project”, which announced funding to go towards the Northern Health Academic and Research Precinct. The flowering of the Epping health precinct around the Northern Hospital […]
Diamond Valley Community Hospital
The Diamond Valley Community Hospital was established in 1942 in Grimshaw Street Greensborough. Prior to the hospital, health services had been limited. There had been a baby health centre in operation since 1932, which had been very popular with residents from the surrounding areas and as far away as Research. Previously, there was a small […]