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Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow

Helen Macrae

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Description:In 1896 a small group of Melbourne’s first women doctors opened a makeshift hospital in a borrowed church hall. They wanted to give ‘poor women the opportunity of being treated by their own sex, and inthe presence of women only’. In the first few months they were overwhelmed by large numbers of outpatients.Leaders of Melbourne’s suffragist movement came to their aid. They asked all women in the colony of Victoria to donate a shilling so the doctors could have a building of their own – with wards and an operating theatre.Funds poured in, even though Victoria was in the middle of its worst depression. The Shilling Fund made enough money for the doctors to buy a building outright and fit it out as a hospital.The Queen Victoria Hospital was the only general hospital for women in Australia. It became a much loved Melbourne icon, but was forced to surrender the ‘for women, by women’ vision of its founders in the 1950s and 1960s.The Victorian government closed the Queen Vic at the end of 1986. Women’s organisations started a heroic struggle to keep three towers on the Queen Vic site in the hands of the women of Victoria. They salvaged a singletower from a whole city block of hospital buildings. That tower now houses the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre.This is the story of the hospital, the campaign and the tower.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow. To get started finding Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In 1896 a small group of Melbourne’s first women doctors opened a makeshift hospital in a borrowed church hall. They wanted to give ‘poor women the opportunity of being treated by their own sex, and inthe presence of women only’. In the first few months they were overwhelmed by large numbers of outpatients.Leaders of Melbourne’s suffragist movement came to their aid. They asked all women in the colony of Victoria to donate a shilling so the doctors could have a building of their own – with wards and an operating theatre.Funds poured in, even though Victoria was in the middle of its worst depression. The Shilling Fund made enough money for the doctors to buy a building outright and fit it out as a hospital.The Queen Victoria Hospital was the only general hospital for women in Australia. It became a much loved Melbourne icon, but was forced to surrender the ‘for women, by women’ vision of its founders in the 1950s and 1960s.The Victorian government closed the Queen Vic at the end of 1986. Women’s organisations started a heroic struggle to keep three towers on the Queen Vic site in the hands of the women of Victoria. They salvaged a singletower from a whole city block of hospital buildings. That tower now houses the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre.This is the story of the hospital, the campaign and the tower.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow. To get started finding Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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