Plenty Hospital at the Mont Park complex- a History
Plenty Hospital specialised in treating elderly patients with chronic mental ill health. It...
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Plenty Hospital specialised in treating elderly patients with chronic mental ill health. It...
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Tuberculosis Control of tuberculosis (TB, sometimes called ‘consumption’) became an issue in...
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Matron Tyers, Dr David Cade and staff in the front step of the New Hospital courtesy...
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Dr David Duncan Cade and his wife Ellen – parents of Dr John F.J. Cade. Dr David Duncan Cade (1875 – 1954) was a medical doctor who worked in mental asylums in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s, officially retiring from...
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David John Harding Barlow (1928 – 2002) – admired psychiatrist at Larundel Dr Barlow came to work...
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