Fremantle Hospital: A Social History to 1987 by Phyl Garrick and Chris Jeffery

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Two preliminary endpages have a tiny spot of insect damage. Minor rust marks from old sticky tape removal. Light foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

The history of Fremantle Hospital is not merely an account of the proliferation of buildings and the achievements of those who worked in them. Instead, it is a history of a local community and the people who lived or worked at the hospital, striving, sometimes failing, but usually achieving in their own individual life cycles.

This book is also an account of the town's early medical services, the public health of a port city and the circumstances that led to the organisation of a hospital nearly sixty years after British settlement.

This is a story of the effects of war and world depression, depleted staff numbers, increasing patient numbers and, in 1942, evacuation from the town under threat of invasion. (back cover)