Princess Margaret Hospital for Children (PMH) was established in 1909 in Subiaco as the Perth Children's Hospital. It was common for children who were in out of home 'care' to be sent there for medical treatment, and children with intellectual disabilities or serious medical conditions sometimes lived at the hospital. On 10 June 2018 the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children closed when the Perth Children's Hospital opened.
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children (PMH) was established in 1909 as the Perth Children's Hospital Inc on the corner of Thomas and Hay Streets in Subiaco. A children's ward at the Perth Public Hospital had opened in 1900 but the demands of a rapidly growing population led to the need for a dedicated children's hospital.
In 1949, the Perth Children's Hospital was renamed after Princess Margaret. Many children who were in out of home care were treated in the Perth Children's/Princess Margaret Hospital, and other children with intellectual disabilities or serious medical conditions sometimes lived there.
The Princess Margaret Hospital for Children closed on 10 June 2018 when the Perth Children's Hospital opened.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'AU WA A679 - Princess Margaret Hospital for Children', in State Records Office of Western Australia - Organisations & People, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2015, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/princess-margaret-hospital-for-children-au-wa-a679; 'AU WA A680 - Children's Hospital', in State Records Office of Western Australia - Organisations & People, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2015, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/childrens-hospital-au-wa-a680; Bennett, Christobel, 'Princess Margaret Hospital', in Gregory, Jenny and Jan Gothard [editors] (eds), Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, W.A., 2009, pp. 721-722; Chate, A.H; Graham, Bruce; Oakley, Glenda, Date it!: a Western Australian chronology to 1929, Friends of the Battye Library (Inc.), Northbridge, Western Australia, 1991. p.35.; Ellis, A.S., Eloquent Testimony : the Story of the Mental Health Services in Western Australia, 1830-1975, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1984. p.161.; Stella, Leonie, 'Normalisation and Beyond: Public Sector Residential Care 1965-1990', in Errol Cocks (ed.), Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 92-136. p.99.; Government of Western Australia Child and Adolescent Health Service, 'About Us', 2018, http://pch.health.wa.gov.au/About-us.
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 28 January 2013, Last modified: 9 January 2019