Murray Hospital, Pinjarra

Child Places

• 03118 Nurses' Quarters, Pinjarra

Statement of Significance

Murray Hospital has social significance as an ongoing site of health care for residents of the district for more than 50 years.

Physical Description

Brick and iron single-storey hospital.

History

At the start of the 20th century, Pinjarra had the district’s only hospital. This was a small
house near the corner of George and James Streets, leased from J. P. McLarty.
By the 1950s, the old hospital had become beyond repair and a new facility was needed.
Land was acquired between the old hospital and the river, and new nurses’ quarters was
the first building erected, in 1950, for £16,050.
The hospital, like the quarters, was constructed by Fred Wells for a cost of £128,500, of
which Lotteries Commission paid half. The new hospital was opened by Premier Ross
McLarty in October 1952.
It had a 24-bed ward, a four-bed ‘native ward’, outpatient’s wing, operating theatre, x-ray,
pathology, and an eight-bed maternity ward.
In 2010, the Hospital continues to function, although the Nurses’ Quarters have since been
demolished.

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Condition

Good

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