| Call Number |
MN 2035 |
| Physical description |
8 cm. |
| Notes |
In part, photocopies. |
| Cite As |
Battye Library, MN 2035, Records of Sunset Hospital, ACC 5688A. |
| Biography/history |
Sunset Hospital, previously known as the Old Men's Home, was built on a rise overlooking Freshwater Bay in Dalkeith in 1904. It replaced the Mount Eliza Depot used to house the poor and destititute since the 1850s. In 1964 women were admitted to the home for the first time. Sunset closed in 1995. |
| Finding Aids |
Detailed listing available (MN 2035) |
| Summary |
Among the records are files (including a file on the possible sale of Sunset, 1981-1994); correspondence (1904-1994); histories; newspaper cuttings; notes on various staff members; reports (1906 annual report, 1995 relocation reports); plans; regulations; instructions to staff; menus; programs; lists; a handwritten address to A.C. Rust (long time superintendent ); a biography of Walter Padbury (benefactor); interview with Dr R.B. Lefroy (State Geriatrician in the 1960s); constitution and minutes of the Friends of Sunset; forms; notices; cards. |
| Subjects |
Sunset Hospital -- Archives.
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Old age homes -- Western Australia -- Dalkeith -- Archives.
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