part 20 - Driessen archive - Royal Adelaide hospital
source: Driessen archive - digital
archivist: Andreas Driessen op ten Bulten
cannot show the images, due to online copy/download theft and no way of preventing this 100%
however photo's of them are available, for a small fee [$/euro 2.50 each, payment via paypal]
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Royal Adelaide hospital [south Australia]
brief history:
This hospital opened 1841 [book history of Royal Adelaide hospital p. 5] at the eastern of North Terrace, Adelaide.
Provide also tertiary health care services, affiliated with University of Adelaide.
It got the prefix "Royal" in 1939.
In 2017 it completed the new Royal Adelaide hospital [nrah] on 10 hectares on the former railyards site within the Adelaide Park lands,
whereby the move from the old hospital to the new was done in 4 days.
By 2021 the hospital has 800 beds and an helipad.
Driessen archive:
1) coloured postcard seen from the North Terrace postmarked around 1907. [20-0101a/b]
2) photo postcard postmarked 2 January 1907. [20-0102a/b]
3) coloured postcard Adelaide hospital [same image as 0101 but different lettering] - postmarked 1906. [20-0106a/b]
4) nurses certificate folder dated 17 March 1935 to Rosie Ellen Robertson, declaring she has done 3 years training and is now a qualified
registered nurse. Including picture of the hospital. With signature of the chairman, the matron Lucy C. Daw and others. [20-0103a/b]
5) letter dated 18 January 1938 from the matron Lucy C. Daw to nurse Evans at Parkside, mentioning she has a vacancy for a staff nurse
commencing 22 January 1938. [20-0104]
5) book: a history of the Royal Adelaide Hospital by J. Estcourt
Hughes 2nd edition 1982. [20-0105-001/137]