Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1920-1962 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
9 boxes, 2 volumes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Wagga Wagga District Hospital opened on 1 July 1856 and was situated in a slab cottage on the sandhill in Kincaid Street. In 1859, land was granted to the Hospital Committee to erect a new building on the corner of Tarcutta and Johnston Streets. By 1900, the hospital had outgrown this land and looked to rebuild on the edge of the township. In 1910 the hospital opened on its new site at the corner of Edward Street and Albury Road (later, Docker Street). In 1938 the name of the hospital changed to the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
In 2016 it was briefly named the Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital before once again becoming the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital in February 2018.
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Subject files, out-patient lists, pathology lists, accounts, ledgers, Hospital Committee minute books, post-mortem register, inventory of theatres book, photographs, annual reports, pamphlets, bedplates, publications and nurses employment registers.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Records relating to patients and staff may be RESTRICTED. Contact the Reference Archivist for more information.
All other records are OPEN to public access.
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Conditions governing reproduction
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Language of material
Script of material
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Finding aids
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