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Queens Home
Later to become the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital (1939) and today the Womens and Childrens Hospital, the Queens Home began in 1900 with a donation of land in Rose Park and a grant of £2550 by the South Australian Company.
(from http://www.wch.sa.gov.au/about/history.html accessed 9 July 2009)
Midwifery certificate from the Queen's Home
Transcription of document:
The Queen’s Home
South Australia
Adelaide May 1922
This is to Certify that Laura Lavinia McNeill Has received Instruction in the Special Work of Midwifery in this Maternity Home for a period of six months and after examination was found to be competent to discharge the duties of an Obstetrical Nurse
[Signed]
W ? Phillips President
T.G. ????? Chairman of the Medical Board
????? Secretary
Examiners
MBrian H ?Sarg,
E?S Kathaway,
Skinner, Matron-o0o-
