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The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), colloquially referred to as the Royal Children's, is a major children's hospital in Parkville, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Regarded as one of the great Children's hospitals globally, the hospital and its facilities are internationally recognised as a “leading centre for paediatrics”. [ 3 ]
When it closed, it was the last specific infectious diseases hospital in Australia. Initially the hospital was devoted to the treatment of patients with fevers. Diseases treated included typhoid, diphtheria, cholera, smallpox, poliomyelitis and scarlet fever, and in its final years, HIV/AIDS became very prominent.
Between 2013 and 2016 population rates of scarlet fever in England increased from 8.2 to 33.2 per 100,000 and hospital admissions for scarlet fever increased by 97%. [49] Further increases in the reporting of scarlet fever cases have been noted in England during the 2021–2022 season (September to September) and so far also in the season 2022 ...
Elizabeth Kathleen Turner AO (19 August 1914 - 26 December 1999) was a physician from Australia, who was the first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.She held the position of Medical Superintendent of the (Royal) Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1943 until 1946 [1] Turner achieved a number of other Australian firsts, such as performing Australia's first exchange transfusion for ...
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children [635] – Subiaco; Quairading Hospital – Quairading [636] Ravensthorpe Health Centre – Ravensthorpe [637] Rockingham General Hospital – Cooloongup [638] Roebourne Hospital – Roebourne [639] Royal Perth Hospital Shenton Park Campus [640] – Shenton Park; Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street ...
After the London Fever Hospital was established in 1802, six more hospitals were established in London by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.These were designed with two separate buildings – one for smallpox patients and one for sufferers from other infectious diseases: cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, typhus and whooping cough.
RAHC Camperdown. The hospital was opened in 1880 as the Sydney Hospital for Sick Children. In 1878, Jessie Campbell-Browne, wife of the Member for Singleton, had gathered a group of women to discuss the merits of establishing a children's hospital in Sydney; the outcome of Campbell-Browne's overtures was the new hospital.
This compared quite favorably when measured against the 13.09% among children in Vienna hospitals where the scarlet fever serum was not administered. Moser's antitoxin reduced the mortality of scarlet fever by 40%. At no time was the volume of serum available sufficient. As of November 1902 a strong concentrated scarlet fever serum was ...