091322 140 year history - A4 landscape v1 digital - Flipbook - Page 83
1981
Air Conditioning Plant
1975
A great deal happens underground at Royal
Prince Alfred and air quality management is
just part of what goes on. Mr Tony Wynne,
the hospital’s Deputy Maintenance Manager,
is inspecting a small section of the air
conditioning plant being installed in a new
building in 1981.
Audio Teaching Aid
RPA Museum Image Collection
In the RPA School of Nursing eight
nurses are listening to a lecture on
a central cassette deck. At the time
this was considered a very up-to-date
teaching aid. The hospital’s nursing
school would go on for another
twelve years but in 1987 it held its
last graduation ceremony for general
students. All nursing training would now
be based in tertiary institutions.
RPA Museum Image Collection
1976
Emergency Department
At this time the staff of the hospital’s ‘shop
front’ were treating an average of 750 patients
a week. That same year the first Director of
the Emergency Department was appointed.
RPA Museum Image Collection
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