Nurse Greenslades Cottage Hospital

King Street, Gawler , number 27-29

• Established in 1904, Nurse Greenslade opened her private hospital on Victoria Terrace, Gawler. It was one of the earliest maternity hospitals in the area.
• The hospital was later known as Nurse Greenslade’s Cottage Hospital, and it operated as a maternity facility for many years.

Nurse Greenslade's Cottage Hospital c1904, on the corner of King St and Victoria Tce. Now a B&B#

# Also known as Nurse Greens Nursing home, From the Bunyip...Mrs Green took over the premises in 1917

#. 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.

#Advertising – Bunyip January 1905 – Nurse Greenslade intends opening COTTAGE HOSPITAL in King Street, Gawler – Medical, Surgery & Midwifery cases.

#MUNICIPAL CORPORATION – Bunyip 15 February 1905 – A license was granted for the new private hospital in King Street, the annual fee to be 20 shillings and Nurse Greenslade to be licensed as manager.

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# In the 1839 survey, allotment 211 was allocated to the Wesleyan Church. On the 13 January 1905 it was in the name of Pauline Maher wife of Dr James Patrick Maher, Physician & Surgeon and

# 2 February 1907 it was transferred to Edith Marion Greenslade (Volume 728 Folio 168)

#Edith Marion Greenslade was born 29 May 1879 at Wauraltee, SA to George & Marion Woodward nee Cleavey. She never married and died 12 July 1928 at Adelaide, SA late of Glenunga at the age of 49 years and buried in the Payneham Cemetery.

#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.

#1 January 1906 – EUCHRE TOURNAMENT, SOCIAL & DANCE at St Joseph’s Church Hall. The Ladies booby prize fell to the lot of Nurse Greenslade.

#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.

#Bunyip 19 June 1914 – Article – Nurse Greenslade Transferring her activities to Glenelg.

#Bunyip 30 March 1917 advertising -- Nurse Green takes over Nurse Greenslade's Nursing Home

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