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The Queen Victoria Hospital was originally a hospital run by women for women and children when it opened in 1899
- PROV does not at present hold any medical or administrative records created by this hospital.
- NOTE: Medical files are sentenced for temporary retention by PROV; ranges of other medical records, such as admission/discharge registers are sentenced for permanent retention. For more information see the General Records Authority (previously known as Disposal Schedule) for Public Health Patient Information Records - Public Record Office Standard (PROS) 99/04.
- PROV holds very few records created by the Department of Public Health, which was responsible for the administration of the health system at the time the Queen Victoria Hospital was created. Files created by that department are held by the Archives Division of the Department of Human Services pending their eventual transfer to PROV.
- For a brief overview of the Queen Victoria Hospital and its successor agencies, refer to its entries in the Australian Science at Work and Australian Women's Archives Project registers. See also Emma Russell, Bricks or spirit: the Queen Victoria Hospital, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1997.
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