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Established as?

I was hoping to sort out the origins of the hospital. 2 alternatives Paul foord (talk) 07:28, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Miss Hill's Private Hospital

Related to a mention in Richard Randall Knuckey, I started having a look for "Miss Hill's Private Hospital". I suspect that this may be the forerunner of the Calvary Wakefield, but don't have time to dig further now. I'll leave a few links here for anyone interested to follow up.

• Someone who died there in 1911
• Death of William Moffat, 1905 (dead link May 2021)
• A nurse who trained there, 1911-1915ish (dead link May 2021)
• A short history of the Private Hospital, Wakefield Street - journal article, published 1977 and available in a few libraries. (Australasian Nurses J. 1977 May;6(10):18) (Also listed in PubMed but not online.)

Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:48, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

House of Mercy 1883

"LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE HOUSE OF MERCY, WAKEFIELD-STREET". South Australian Register. Vol. XLVII, , no. 11, 192. South Australia. 27 September 1882. p. 6. Retrieved 10 May 2021 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) Paul foord (talk) 07:28, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

More info

Hi Paul foord. You have jogged my memory about this one, which has been on my list of things to come back to for about 18 months... I have some more information about this, including a copy of an excerpt from a book called Nursing in South Australia: First Hundred Years 1837-1937 (1938), which someone from Calvary Wakefield Hospital kindly sent me after I emailed them. If you would like to email me via my user page, I can reply attaching a copy, but I will just summarise a few relevant bits here in the meantime.

There was a nurse called Alice Tibbits,born in England, a "pioneer of professional nursing" in SA, who was the matron of "the first recognised private hospital training school for nurses, namely, the Private Hospital, Wakefield Street..." (later abbreviated to P.H.W.S.). She was assigned to PHWS in 1888, when the hospital consisted of a two-storied house and could accommodate 12-15 patients... later expanded, including the construction of a two-storied building called "Hatherton".... numerous doctors, etc... Tibbits sold the hospital to Miss Kate Hill in 1903. At the time of publication of the book, PHWS still existed, and a brass tablet was erected for Tibbits. Hill was matron from 1903 to 1913, then a Miss Laurence until 1926... enlarged, etc. Then Miss Rowe, who created a company, purchased the site at the corner of Wakefield Street and Hutt Street, and erected a new hospital, completed June 1934.

It's a shame that the journal article mentioned above is not available closer to me, although it is possible that I get to Flinders one day. That would probably tell the whole story. I think the House of Mercy, founded by the Sisters of Mercy, was more likely to be closer to St Xavier's Cathedral, and may have been part of what is now St Aloysius School? I will come back to this, but let me know if you'd like me to send you the scan of that booklet. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:08, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

p.s. Just having a quick look at Trove, there are a few mentions of the hospital pre-1988 in Family notices, notably this one in Jan 1886, which says "Private Hospital, Wakefield-street east of Pulteney-street)". FYI, this is the search I used all words private hospital wakefield street, 1885 to 1889. Earliest one I could find, 24 April 1885. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:31, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

p.p.s. Kate Hill in ADB. Kate Hill. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:36, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Oh, and having dug around in my old emails a bit more, I've also found some info sent to me by the SLSA, transcribed from that journal article (A short history..), which says: "In 1888, Mrs Gardner sold the hospital to Miss Alice Tibbitts, a trainee of the London Hospital. Under the Matronship of Miss Tibbitts - a recognised pioneer of nursing in S.A., the hospital became the first private training school in the State." I might have to follow that up and see if there's anything earlier than 1888 that they can get me. Have to leave this now! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Final update for early history - now done. I don't have sources for what happened later (e.g. when the current building was built), but I'm leaving it there for now. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 12:00, 13 May 2021 (UTC)