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SECOND HAND BOOK
The foundation stone for Melbourne’s first public hospital was laid in 1846, on the same day as the foundation stone for the Princes’s Bridge. Opening its doors in 1848, the hospital was initially known as ‘The Charity’, because it treated only the poor. As Melbourne expanded, so it grew and survived the ordeals of boom, depression and the severe sanitation problems of the nineteenth century. Learn more within these pages.
Hardcover. Excellent Condition: 1st Edition. Condition of Book and Dustjacket: As New. An authoritative and comprehensive account of the first 150 years of the Royal Melbourne Hospital. includes invitation to the launch inside the book.
Hardcover, 1st printing, 1998, 500 pp
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