AGY-6462 | Queen Victoria Sanatorium Wentworth Falls / Queen Victoria Home for Consumptives Wentworth Falls

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Queen Victoria Memorial Fund Committee made the decision to establish a new hospital for consumptives at Wentworth Falls with accommodation for twenty male patients which opened on 18 February 1903. (1)

The Queen Victoria Sanatoriums were initially administered by the Queen Victoria Consumptives Homes Fund Committee with funds received by public subscription and increasingly by government subsidies. (2) By April 1912, ever increasing government assistance led to the dissolving of Queen Victoria Consumptives Homes Fund Committee. (3) The Queen Victoria Hospitals became hospitals under the Public Hospitals Act in July 1912. (4)

The Queen Victoria Sanatorium at Wentworth Falls functioned as a sanatorium for patients with tuberculosis until 1958 when it became a hospital for the aged and chronically ill. (5)

Endnotes
1. Office of Environment and Heritage NSW, "Queen Victoria Sanatorium", http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=1170824 (accessed 5 September 2012) and J. Austin, B. Craven and G. Silvey, A Brief History of the Township of Wentworth Falls, Wentworth Falls NSW: Blue Mountains Historical Society, 1996, p.12.
2. "Home for Consumptives", Sydney Morning Herald, 26 March 1909, p.5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15046019 (accessed 10 September 2012).
3. "Q.V. Homes", Sydney Morning Herald, 13 April 1912, p.8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15325289 (accessed 10 September 2012).
4. NSW Government Gazette No.102, 3 July 1912, p.4252.
5. Office of Environment and Heritage NSW, "Queen Victoria Sanatorium", http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=1170824 (accessed 5 September 2012).