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Former Fairfield Hospital
Yarra Bend Road,, FAIRFIELD VIC 3078 - Property No B6695
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A purpose designed hospital of State significance as the first infectious diseases hospital in Victoria. In 1926 the advanced design of the complex was considered by visiting American hospital expert Dr MacEachern as "the best fever hospital plan with which he had ever come in contact". Fairfield has a distinctive history as the location of Melbourne's infectious diseases hospital, and the spatial and symbolic isolation of its first fifty years are key aspects of the site's social
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B6695
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