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Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital commenced operation in 1904 as a fever hospital, named 'Queen's Memorial Hospital'. It treated patients for typhoid, diphtheria, cholera and smallpox, and dealt with epidemics of polio and scarlet fever. It later was also a centre for research and treatment of infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS.It was renamed to 'Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital' between 1919 and 1947. In 1948, new legislation enabled the hospital to treat general medical and surgical patients, and hence was renamed 'Fairfield Hospital', until 1969.
From 1940, the hospital became a training school for nurses. It also housed a virology laboratory from 1950, and a new medical research centre from 1983, which was renamed Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, and later the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health.
The Fairfield Hospital Board was established under the Infectious Diseases Hospital Act 1954. The Board was responsible for the management of the hospital.
It was renamed in ?1970 to Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital. The Hospital was closed on 30 June 1996, by which time many patients had been transferred to Austin Repatriation Hospital in Heidelberg (Austin Hospital - VA 1243).
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[1904 TO 1996]
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