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Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital

1904 establishments in Australia1996 disestablishments in AustraliaBuildings and structures in the City of YarraDefunct hospitals in Victoria (Australia)HIV/AIDS memorials
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Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, originally known as Queens Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital, operated from 1904 to its closure in 1996. Perched high on the banks of the Yarra River at Yarra Bend in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fairfield, it developed an international reputation for the research and treatment of infectious diseases. When it closed, it was the last specific infectious diseases hospital in Australia. Initially the hospital was devoted to the treatment of patients with fevers. Diseases treated included typhoid, diphtheria, cholera, smallpox, poliomyelitis and scarlet fever, and in its final years, HIV/AIDS became very prominent.

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Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital
Yarra Bend Road, Melbourne Fairfield

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Yarra Bend Road
3078 Melbourne, Fairfield
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