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The hospital provided gynaecological and obstetric services, and a venereal disease clinic to service the city's sex workers. The hospital became known for its woman-focussed culture, and feminist values. A private wing called the Jessie McPherson Community Hospital opened in 1931.
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in 1992, who immediately on-sold to the Government of Nauru. All but three of the hospital pavilions were demolished in the following years, with the final two that would have been preserved demolished in 1994 with a permit from then Planning Minister
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during the war. The move finally took place in 1944, and the old buildings were then occupied by the Queen Victoria Hospital, established 'by women for women' in 1896 and renamed the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in 1901 after the queen's death.
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The site was originally the Melbourne Hospital, built in the 1840sβ€”1860s as series of Tudor style buildings. The hospital was completely rebuilt on a much larger scale between 1910–1916 to a design by architect
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located on the block next door to the north, and a competition was held, with a condition being the preservation of the three towers. One such design by post-modern architects
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in 1935, and moves began to relocate to a former pig market site in Parkville. The new hospital was completed in 1941 but was occupied as a
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pavilions or towers, running north–south, housing the ward blocks, each with open verandahs for patients to convalesce in the open air.
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In 1986, with the pending relocation and amalgamation of the hospital, the site was to be redeveloped to house expansions of the
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63 million. During the financial squeeze of the early 1990s, it was eventually sold for only $ 15 million to property developer
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at Southbank, but shortly after construction commenced, it was moved to the Carlton Gardens behind the Exhibition Buildings.
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Nothing came of the proposals, and instead later in the 1990s it was decided to build a separate
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in partnership with his son E.J. Clark. The hospital was composed of several five and six-storey
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Cable tram dummy and trailer passing the QVH on route between Carlton and St Kilda in 1905.
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in September 1896, it initially ran as a free out-patient clinic and dispensary for
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In 1946, the hospital moved to the premises in Lonsdale Street.
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Victoria Hospital

Care system
Medicare (AU)
Type
Teaching
Affiliated university
Hospitals in Australia
Constance Stone
Victorian Medical Women's Society
St David’s Welsh Church

John James Clark
Edwardian
Tudor
cupolas
Royal Melbourne Hospital
military hospital

State Library
Museum
Edmond & Corrigan
Swanston Street
A$
David Marriner
Rob Maclellan
Historic Buildings Council
Grocon
tender
Queen Victoria Village

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