Our Heritage

From the 19th century origins at the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children to present day,  children have been at the centre of our service.

Take a journey back ito the early day of paediatric services - view our photo gallery below.
Homeopathic/Prince Henry's Hospital
Homeopathic Hospital
Prince Henry's
Dandenong Bush Hospital
Queen Victoria Hospital
Late 1980s “Special delivery from Queen Vic” singlet
Ophthalmologist with child patient
Baby having a blood-sugar test. Note that the pathologist is utilizing a tube to stimulate the blood flow in the baby’s foot, a haematological procedure of a kind that is no longer performed. Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Outpatients Clinic, Mint Plac
Monash University’s Foundation Professor of Paediatrics, Professor Arthur Clark (born 1928), in academic gown
Monash University’s Foundation Professor of Paediatrics, Professor Arthur Clark (born 1928), in surgical gown,
Two nurses watching over babies tucked into their cots in the Nursery of Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital. Although the style of the nurses’ uniforms date this photo as probably having been taken in the period between the mid-1940s and the early 1950s, wh
Detailed view of babies by the dozen with nurse looking on in the Nursery of Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Mint Place, Little Lonsdale Street. Exact date unknown, probably early 1940s (Source: Southern Health Historical Collections QP 4.01.08)
Nurse laying baby into cot
A pair of nurses wearing surgical masks and bottle-feeding babies in the Premature Babies’ Room of Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Mint Place, Little Lonsdale Street. Exact date
Occupational therapy
Paediatricians in training
Rounds with Dr Rae Matthews
A little patient receiving physiotherapy
The girl is wearing long callipers to support her legs while she walks for a short time between bars to achieve balance, Queen Victoria Hospital, Physiotherapy Unit. Exact date unknown, circa 1970s (Source: Southern Health Historical Collections QP 21.05.
Associate Professor Bob MacMahon, of Paediatric Surgery, and outpatient, Shane Lacchiana
Balance training
This girl is standing strapped into a frame
A group of visually disabled babies receiving a combined session
Flopsy and play therapy
Play therapy with Teddy
Volunteers in action
Oxygen treatment
Drawing on blackboard
Haematological treatment
Haematological treatment
Kidney kid, Tugam Gundofou
Kidney Kids’ Camp
Renal treatment
Dr Patch Adams, the original clown doctor at Monash Medical Centre Clayton.
Canoeing at the Kidney Kids’ Camp
Ronald McDonald with a young cancer patient at the Opening of Ronald McDonald House
Patients Nick Kotsanis of Springvale and Arthur Georgiadis of North Altona
Renal patient receiving treatment
Family medicine
Chaplain with young patient
Professor Victor Yu
‘Blacking-out’ of children’s ward
Children’s Ward at the Homoeopathic Hospital
Children's ward
Premature baby being christened by hospital chaplain at the Queen Victoria Memorials Hospoutal 1970s
'Another Australian saved'. By 1948 humidicribs were seen as valuable not only in preserving lives of premature babies but also helping to populate Australia
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