PHOTOGRAPH: DRAWING OF 'ST. JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, FIRST CATHOLIC HOSPITAL IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, CIRCA 1897
c. 1897This black and white photograph features a drawing of the single storey hospital building of St. John of God Hospital. The building has a wrap-around verandah with turned timber posts and a trellis feature under the eaves. Also under the verandah eaves are the words 'Cottage Hospital'. The building has a steeply pitched roof, three chimenys and six large windows, as well as a double timber front door.
Written on the roof are the words: 'St. John of God - First Catholic Hospital in Western Australia'.
The first convent and hospital of the Sisters of St John of God was built in 1897 and opened in 1898. The cottage hospital had three wards and could accommodate thirty patients.
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This photograph documents the design of the first St John of God Hospital in Subiaco, which was the first Catholic Hospital in Western Australia. Although now demolished, the hospital continues to function on this site.
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Nearest geotagged records:
- PHOTOGRAPH: FIRST SISTERS OF ST. JOHN OF GOD IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, CIRCA 1897 (0km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: SISTERS OF SAINT JOHN OF GOD (0.01km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH (COPY): FIRST SISTERS OF ST. JOHN OF GOD IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, CIRCA 1900 (0.01km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: OPERATING THEATRE, ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, SUBIACO, CIRCA 1971 (0.02km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: OPERATING THEATRE, ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, SUBIACO, CIRCA 1971 (0.02km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: OPERATING THEATRE, ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, SUBIACO, CIRCA 1971 (0.02km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: ST. JOSEPHS, FIRST CONVENT CHURCH OF THE SISTERS OF ST. JOHN OF GOD, SUBIACO, 1902 (0.03km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: ST. JOSEPHS, FIRST CONVENT CHURCH AND SCHOOL OF THE SISTERS OF ST. JOHN OF GOD, SUBIACO, 1902 (0.03km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AREA TOWARDS KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, SONYA SEARS, 1997 (0.06km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: OPERATING THEATRE, ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, SUBIACO, CIRCA 1971 (0.06km away)
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