Series:
Patient Registers of the Swansea District Nursing Centre (May Shaw Memorial Hospital)
Series Number:
Access:
Agency access only 50 Years (D50)
Start Date:
07 Jun 1956
End Date:
20 Dec 1976
Excludes Dates:
14 May 1961 - 11 Jul 1963
01 Nov 1970 - 29 Feb 1972
Creating Agency:
| District Nursing Service (Bush Nursing Association) (TA1110) | 01 Jan 1922 | 31 Dec 1968 |
| Swansea Public Hospitals District Board (TA2247) | 31 Dec 1968 | 19 Jun 1990 |
Series notes:
Contain date, name of patient, address (eg. Swansea), medical issue and treatment, including if they were admitted. The facility was opened in December 1939 as the May Shaw Memorial Hospital under the management of the Swansea Bush Nursing Association. In 1957 Bush Nursing was renamed the District Nursing Service. In 1956-57 the hospital had 4 in-patient beds and 4,153 out-patient visits. By 1975-76 there were 2,518 out-patient visits and 1,257 home nursing patients.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Chronological.
Information Sources:
'Examiner' newspaper 4/12/1939 p6; Department of Health Services annual report 1956-57 (Journals and Papers of Parliament, vol.157, report no.76) and annual report 1975-76 (JPP vol.197, report no.19).
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