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CLAREMONT GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE

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Coloured prints. (a) Stirling Highway view of two-storey white building with orange tiles. In the foreground, a sloping path through the garden has a the sign [SURGERY] with an arrow. The river and adjacent high rise buildings are visible in the background. (b) View from north west of two storey extensions dwarfing the original house/surgery on the left. Sign indicates [AFTER HOURS] availabilty. There is a median strip in Stirling Highway and a white-roofed apartment block on the other corner of Freshwater Parade.

Historical information

The Claremont General Medical Practice started at the end of 1896 and was the oldest continuous general practice in Western Australia. The practice was founded by Dr William Theodore Hodge, the first western trained doctor to work in Claremont. In 1919, Dr Donald R. C. Tregonning bought the block at what is now 328 Stirling Highway, and designed and built house and surgery in a Californian Bungalow style. The practice operated from this site until it closed in February 2011.

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