The following excerpt is from the book by Mrs Arthur H Garnsey called ‘Scarlet Pillows: An Australian Nurse’s Tales of Long Ago’ and is about her memories of being a nurse in Coolgardie in the early days. The tale of the house that Jack built has his counterpart in Coolgardie in the tale of all […]
New Kalgoorlie Hospital Records 1919 to 1921
NEW KALGOORLIE HOSPITAL RECORDS It’s been a while since our last addition to the admission records of the Kalgoorlie Hospital. I’m happy to now add to the Outback Family History website, the latest digitised index covering the dates: August 1919 to April 1921. This is a total of 513 new entries. You can view the […]
The Busiest Place in Town –
The following excerpt is from the book by Mrs Arthur H Garnsey called ‘Scarlet Pillows: An Australian Nurse’s Tales of Long Ago’ and is about her memories of being a nurse in Coolgardie in the early days. The tale of the house that Jack built has his counterpart in Coolgardie in the tale of all […]
Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 8
The next files are now released: “3600 individual new entries” File 37 and 38 – from 30th January 1916 to 27 August 1919 The Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, told us some 17 years ago, that all of the original patient admission registers from the very first days of the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital were still stored in […]
Kalgoorlie Hospital – the first records
I was fortunate that a friend came across, and copied, the following admission register for the Kalgoorlie Hospital at State Records in Perth. It dates from Dec 1894 to May 1896. These would be the very first people treated on the same site as the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital in Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie today. It is […]