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edited by Paul A.C. Richards, Barbara Valentine, Tom Dunning & Dan Huon
There have been monumental changes in the delivery of health care … but none more so than the continuing development and physical growth of the hospital on its current site. Advances made in the field of research and presence of place of the hospital in Tasmania are second to none.
The Launceston General Hospital was established in 1863 on Mulgrave Square and has celebrated three milestones in the delivery of health care to Launcestonians in the hospital’s Centenary in 1963. Its 125th anniversary in 1988 and now in 2013, celebrating 150 years of serving and caring for the community of Northern Tasmania.
Julian Burgess pays tribute to the institution through the eyes of “The Examiner Newspaper”, highlighting several milestones in the hospital’s 150 year history and Dr Eric Ratcliff describes the architectural style of the imposing purpose built 1863 hospital, subsequently demolished to make way for its successor, and the problems that beset the present hospital complex on the opposite side of Charles Street.
In preparing this volume, a focus has been taken on those events that have occurred during the last fifty years….as well as contributions from the various departments within the Launceston General Hospital that have delivered health care to Launcestonians over the last fifty years.
Other chapters have been drawn from “The Archive”, the LGH Historical Committee’s newsletter, which ran for 35 copies in the mid-1990s and from the 2006 book, Effecting a Cure. Aspects of Health and Medicine in Launceston.
edited by Paul A.C. Richards, Barbara Valentine, Tom Dunning & Dan Huon
There have been monumental changes in the delivery of health care … but none more so than the continuing development and physical growth of the hospital on its current site. Advances made in the field of research and presence of place of the hospital in Tasmania are second to none.
The Launceston General Hospital was established in 1863 on Mulgrave Square and has celebrated three milestones in the delivery of health care to Launcestonians in the hospital’s Centenary in 1963. Its 125th anniversary in 1988 and now in 2013, celebrating 150 years of serving and caring for the community of Northern Tasmania.
Julian Burgess pays tribute to the institution through the eyes of “The Examiner Newspaper”, highlighting several milestones in the hospital’s 150 year history and Dr Eric Ratcliff describes the architectural style of the imposing purpose built 1863 hospital, subsequently demolished to make way for its successor, and the problems that beset the present hospital complex on the opposite side of Charles Street.
In preparing this volume, a focus has been taken on those events that have occurred during the last fifty years….as well as contributions from the various departments within the Launceston General Hospital that have delivered health care to Launcestonians over the last fifty years.
Other chapters have been drawn from “The Archive”, the LGH Historical Committee’s newsletter, which ran for 35 copies in the mid-1990s and from the 2006 book, Effecting a Cure. Aspects of Health and Medicine in Launceston.