Ballarat Base Hospital
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The Ballarat Base Hospital is a hospital located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
During the gold rush of the 1850s the Government Camp provided medical support but mainly for officers and not for miners and the general community. Those wounded at the Eureka Stockade in 1854 received varying attention and the need for a hospital became apparent. A year later building of a hospital commenced.
Specialties
The hospital provides many specialties, including:
- Cardiology
- Emergency medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Infectious disease medicine
- Lower gastrointestinal surgery
- Nephrology
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Upper gastrointestinal surgery
- Vascular surgery
See also
External references
Websites
Books
- Hyslop, Anthea, Sovereign Remedies: A History of Ballarat Base Hospital, 1850s-1980s, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989
- Menadue, H. W., First Fifty Years: Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses' League, 1929-1978, Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses' League, Ballarat, 1978
- Menadue, H. W. (ed.), Register of the Nurse Training School 1888-1988, Ballarat Base Hospital, Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses' League, Ballarat, 1993
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