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Looking back, Looking forward (4.68 MB)
Acquisition number: 
1410
Catalogue number: 
embk0097
File name: 
BK0097
File location: 
Bookcase

The story of 'Berry Street' Child and Family Care 1877-1977. Berry Street was founded in 1877 in Fitzroy as 'The Victorian Infant Asylum'. It moved to Berry Street, East Melbourne in 1881 occupying the old Police Hospital that had been part of the mounted police barracks. Over the years it acquired neighbouring properties, including Tandarra in Vale Street. Gives lists of honorary medical staff and matrons. Photos and illustrations.

Item type: 
Book
Building name: 
Police Hospital, Tandarra
Number of pages: 
60
Author: 
Beryl Penwill
Date of publication or creation: 
2011 (reprint)
Publisher: 
Berry Street Child and Family Care
Publication place: 
Melbourne
ISBN: 
0 959 5639 0 3
History of item: 

First published 1979

Copyright owner: 
Berry Street Child and Family Care
Year acquired: 
2017
Donor: 
Berry Street
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