OLD HOSPITAL, CORNER HENRY AND DUKE STREETS, TOODYAY

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1973

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Overview

B&W, double storey hospital building in Henry Street before its conversion to a private residence.
Shows the front fence as low with rendered sides and brick capping. Front garden shows one pencil pine in centre and trees and shrubs to the right.
Corrugated iron roof. Top and bottom verandahs are enclosed to waist height with ends fully enclosed on the upper storey.
Rock lower walls, brick upper storey. Weedy garden.

Historical information

Construction of the Newcastle Hospital (later to be known as the Toodyay Hospital) commenced in 1892 and was completed in 1893. Alterations were required and in 1895 the hospital finally opened. In1902 the Principal Medical Officer for Western Australia, Dr. Thomas Henry Lovegrove, closed the hospital due to operating costs being too high. The hospital staff were dismissed and most of the fittings and fixtures being sent to a new hospital in Katanning, Western Australia.
An epidemic of diphtheria flared up in the district in late 1906 and so in the following year a wing of the hospital reopened. In 1910 the State Government and the Newcastle Road Board jointly took over the maintenance of the building, which remained operational as a hospital until 1940.
The property was then sold into private ownership and today (2022) is used as a private residence.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1535

Item type

Photographs

Width

89 mm

Height or length

139 mm

Themes

Medicine & Health

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