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Main Title: Bandages bedpans pills & stethoscopes : a history of all things medical in Pyramid Hill and District / compiled and edited by Helen Stevens Book Cover
Author: Stevens, Helen
Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society (Vic.)
Imprint: [Pyramid Hill, Vic. : Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society, 2009?]
Collation: 175 p. : ill., facsims., portraits, index, pbk. ; 30 cm.
Subject: Medicine
Hospitals
Doctors
Nurses and nursing
Pyramid Hill (Vic.)
ISBN: 9780975738382 (pbk.)
Notes:
"Helen Stevens Compiler and Editor"--P. 4. Contents include:A history of medical services in the Pyramid Hill district p5. Local midwives and nurses p6. Certified nurses p8. The first doctors p8. Dr R O P Joseph 1886 p9. Dr Ross 1887-1888 p9. Dr Hugh Alexander De Ravin 1888-1899 p9. Dr Horace Grattan Kelly p10. Dr Peipers 1897 p10. Dr George Bill 1898-1905 p10. The first hospital p12. Dr Woodside 1905-1908 p13. Private hospital in Victoria st p14. Dr Ridley 1909-1911 p14. Dr C R Merrillees 1911-1914 p15. Dr Jacobs 1912-1916 p16. Veterinary p17. Dr Prichard 1916-1921 p18. Dr Oakeley 1921-1923 p19. Dr A J J Triado 1923-1925 p20. Dr Hands 1925-1933 p20. Lumeah private hospital Victoria st p20. Establishment of a bush nursing hospital p21. Opening of the bush nursing hospital p22. Dr Steele 1933-1937 p25. Dr Brunskill 1937-1941 p27. Hospital in difficulties p28. Dr Cyril Harlem 1939-1946 p29. The 1940s p29. The war effort p30. Nurses quarters p33. World War II over p34. Patriotic carnival 1945 p35. Dr Retallick 1946-1955 p37. Nurses quarters p39. The 1950s p41. Dr W D Jackson 1955-1964 p44. Opening of the new bush nursing hospital p48. The 1960s p52. Dr R L Huppert 1964-1967 p55. Sharp decline in midwifery cases & subscriptions p56. Dr Colin Croucher 1966-1974 p56.
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Non-Fiction Main Library 994.54 PYRA MED Available