Nurse Greenslades Cottage Hospital
Located at 27-29 King Street, on the corner of Victoria Terrace. Click here for an album relating to the site.
In January 1905, Nurse Edith Marion Greenslade advertised in the Bunyip "Nurse Greenslade intends opening COTTAGE HOSPITAL in King Street, Gawler – Medical, Surgery & Midwifery cases." In February 1905 the Gawler Municipal Corporation granted a license for the new private hospital, the annual fee to be 20 shillings and Nurse Greenslade to be licensed as manager,[1] and it was able to commence business. At the time the property was owned by Pauline Maher wife of Dr James Patrick Maher, Physician & Surgeon, but it was transferred to Edith Marion Greenslade on 2 February 1907.[2]
See below for more details about Nurse Greenslade and for just of few of the many cases that took place at the hospital during her time operating it.
In June 1914, Nurse Greenslade advertised in the Bunyip that she was transferring her activities to Glenelg[3] and in March 1917 Mrs H Green removed her nursing home to the King Street premises that had formerly been used by Nurse Greenslade and the King Street site became "Mrs Green's Nursing Home".[4]
Nurse Greenslade's Cottage Hospital was the only second hospital to open in Gawler and prior to the 1926 opening of the Maternity Wing in the Hutchinson Hospital, this private hospital (initially running as Nurse Greenslade's then as Mrs Green's Nursing Home) was the only maternity facility in Gawler, therefore many Gawler locals were born there.[5]
Nurse Edith Marion Greenslade
Edith Marion Greenslade was born 29 May 1879 at Wauraltee, SA, to George Woodward and nee Marion Cleavey. She never married and died 12 July 1928 at Adelaide, SA late of Glenunga at the age of 49 years and was buried in the Payneham Cemetery.
#1 January 1906 – EUCHRE TOURNAMENT, SOCIAL & DANCE at St Joseph’s Church Hall. The Ladies booby prize fell to the lot of Nurse Greenslade.
Cases at the Hospital
- Ros Dunstall wrote This is the hospital my Great Uncle Frederick CLEMENT died in after a horse racing accident in 1905.
- Judi Greenslade wrote .This is the Hospital where my father, Cleaver Spershott Greenslade was born on July 2, 1912 and where his brother, Sydney George was born on October 19, 1913. Sadly my grandmother did not come home from this birth and Mable Carrie Chegwidden-Greenlslade died here on November 19, 1913.
- 7 July 1905 – A case of enteric fever was reported. The Town Clerk stated that the man, from Lyndoch had since died. Dr Fooks attended.
- 16 November 1906 – A lad named Wilcher from Williamstown, had his hand amputated by Drs Maher & Fooks, the result of a shooting accident.
- 16 November 1906 – RACING – Hugo Wilson, rider of Bodalla in the hurdle race, admitted to Nurse Greenslades hospital with concussion.
- 22 March 1907 – The admission of three enteric fever cases reported.
- 5 March 1909 – Tom K Fotheringham died from pneumonia.
- 19 November 1909 – Ernest Eime conveyed to Nurse Greenslade’s Hospital with a compound fracture of the leg.
- 13 May 1910 – Arthur Taylor, “Trevu”, operated on for a appendicitis.
- FAMILY NOTICES – List of Births - Laffer (dau) 1906, Greenslade (son) 1906, Day (son) 1907, Laffer (Victoria Margaret) 1907, Fotheringham (dau) 1908, Penfold (son) 1909, Finch (dau) 1909, Tremlett (dau) 1910, Bruhn (son) 1910, Moran (dau) 1910, Dawkins (dau) 1911, Lloyd (son) 1910, Carter (son) 1911, Tremlett (son) 1911, Day (s0n) 1911, Hughes Nellie Gray 1912, Stanton (dau) 1912, Carter (son) 1912, Arnold (son) 1912, Taylor (son) 1912, Walladge (dau) 1912, Mortimer (son) 1913, Foreman Yevonna Hope 1913, Whitehill (son) 1913, Arnold (son) 1913, Eckerman (dau) 1913, Mortimer (son) 1914, Wake (Howard James Everett) 1914.
- FAMILY NOTICES – List of Deaths - Reynolds Margaret Mary (55y) 1905, Harvey Hannah Sophia (55y) 1906, Lawes Arthur Henry (56y) 1911, King Elsie (27y) 1913, Pappin Hetty (28y) 1913, Sellick Leo (10 W) 1913 Memoriam.
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