Health Services c1950

Hospital and Ambulance services 1949

Goulburn Base Hospital c1950

There are five public hospitals in the Southern Tablelands Region and one private one, while another public hospital is projected. They are (with bed numbers at 30th June 1949, shown in parenthesis) at Goulburn (182), Yass (66), Crookwell (46), Queanbeyan (36), and Braidwood (27), and St John of God Hospital (83) at Goulburn, whilst the proposed hospital is to be at Captains Flat, but is as yet only a clearing station containing four beds.

All have X-ray equipment and at Goulburn public hospital there are pathology services and special X-ray equipment.

District ambulance centres are located at Goulburn, Queanbeyan and Yass. Goulburn also has branches at Braidwood, Captain’s Flat and Crookwell.

Text source: The Southern Tablelands Region: A Preliminary Survey of Resources (1949).

Images: Goulburn Base Hospital (c.1950), St John of God Hospital from Goulburn: Queen City of the South (1952), and Goulburn District Ambulance (c.1960)

During the 1940s and 50s, did anyone in your family have involvement with the operation of hospitals or ambulance services around the Southern Tablelands districts?  Please share your memories.