A002226 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2003-04-09 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-11-11 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002226b.htm corporateBody Women's Hospital AACR2 Lying-in Hospital 1856 1954 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Hospitals or Clinics The Women's Hospital was established in 1856 as a place where underprivileged women could give birth and be given proper medical attention. In 1858 the hospital moved to its present site in Parkville. The Women's Hospital was granted the prefix 'Royal' in 1954, becoming the Royal Women's Hospital. Macdonald, Colin Ferguson (1895 - 1969)

Radiologist 1927 - 1954

 Ellery, Reginald Spencer (1897 - 1955)

Consultant alienist 1931 -

 Maund, John (1823 - 1858)

Founder of the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, also known as the Women's Hospital which went on to become the Royal Women's Hospital Victoria

 Tracy, Richard Thomas (1826 - 1874)

Richard Tracy was medical co-founder, with John Maud, of the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children 1856

 Greig, Janet Lindsay (1874 - 1950)

Honorary Anaesthetist 1900 - 1917

 Adam, George Rothwell Wilson (Rothwell) (1853 - 1924)

Gynaecologist 1888 - 1895

 Meyer, Felix Henry (1858 - 1937) 1887 1918

Felix Meyer was a Senior Gynaecological Surgeon and Obstetrician at the Royal Women's Hospital.

 Royal Women's Hospital (1954 - )

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 'Women's Hospital', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Women's Hospital Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Review: Health and History Hunter-payne, Gwynedd 1998 Health and History 1 1 76-80 Journal Article: The Power of Care: the Women's Hospital 1884-1914 McCalman, Janet The Power of Care: the Women's Hospital 1884-1914 1998 Nursing Inquiry 5 204-211 Book: Sex and Suffering: Women's Health and a Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1856-1996 McCalman, Janet Sex and Suffering: Women's Health and a Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1856-1996 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1998 Journal Article: The Role of the President, Janet Lady Clarke, in the Closure of the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1902 Lewis, Annette The Role of the President, Janet Lady Clarke, in the Closure of the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1902 2012 Victorian Historical Journal 83 31-55