Mater Hospital, c1930

South Brisbane, QLD
Australia
27° 28' 29.1" S, 153° 1' 0.9732" E
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1927
3 May 2011
3 May 2011

Location

South Brisbane, QLD
Australia
27° 28' 29.1" S, 153° 1' 0.9732" E
See map: Google Maps
3 May 2011
Brisbane
State Government Insurance Office

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

40 feet to an inch
Hospitals in the landscape

Mater Hospital, c1930. Established by the Sisters of Mercy, the Mater Private hospital at South Brisbane was officially opened by the Queensland governor Sir William MacGregor on the 14 August 1910. Blessed by Cardinal Moran, the main building commanded a hilltop around which the hospital expanded. The Mater Public hospital was the second facility established at the site in 1911. In 1925, the archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig, laid the foundation stone for the Mater chapel and convent. In July 1931, the Mater Children’s Hospital was opened and immediately started treating patients. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Flying Doctor Service, Queensland, 1958

Flying Doctor Service, Captain J.E. Webb, Queensland, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Travelling on Queensland Health & Home Affairs Dept truck, 1958

Travelling on Queensland Health & Home Affairs Dept truck, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Waiben Hospital, Thursday Island, 1958

Waiben Hospital, Thursday Island, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Asylums in the landscape

For more than one hundred years Queensland’s main mental health facility was based on the banks of the Brisbane River near Goodna.

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Map of Palm and Surrounding Islands, 1941

Palm Island, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1941
1 September 2010
1 September 2010

Location

Palm Island, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
1 September 2010
Lands Office

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Palm Island

Map of Palm and Surrounding Islands, 1941. Lands Office, Palm Island Bundle. Collection of Queensland State Archives. Palm and surrounding islands.  Fantome’s lock hospital for treatment of venereal disease was positioned opposite Palm’s Coolgaree Bay. The lazarette for leprosy sufferers were positioned at the opposite end.

Palm Island

Palm Island is situated in north Queensland, 65 kilometres northwest of Townsville, in Halifax Bay. It is the largest Indigenous community of Queensland.

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The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville, 1910

The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville, 1910. This institution played a key role in propagating the message that there were no significant medical impediments to the establishment of thriving white communities in the tropics. Collection of the National Archives of Australia.

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Aboriginal deaths influenza pandemic, 1918-19

Of the estimated 12,000 deaths in Australia from the Spanish or pneumonic influenza in 1918-19, 1030 were Queenslanders, 315 of whom were known to be Aborigines, representing 30 per cent of the State death toll.  In Queensland, the pandemic had arrived first at the main seaports of the middle and southern coast and had then moved inland to urban and rural regions. Initially, it affected white people then began affecting Aborigines, coming for them on top of an epidemic of pneumonia.

Copyright © Gordon Briscoe, AO

Indigenous health

Queensland possesses two Indigenous groups: Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.

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