Fairfield Isolation Hospital Melbourne Qualified Fever Nurse Badge

A small brass and enamel Australian badge for a Qualified Fever Nurse for the Fairfield Hospital.
Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital in Victoria, Australia, began life in 1904 as a fever hospital, under the original name Queens Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital. It treated Victorian patients for typhoid, diphtheria, cholera, small pox and the epidemics of polio and scarlet fever. It later became one of the world's foremost centres for the research and treatment of infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. Fairfield Hospital was closed in 1996, with the functions it provided relocated to other Melbourne Hospitals.
This small badge ,28mm wide by 18mm deep probably dates to the 1940s or 50s.Makers mark K G. Luke Melb.

Code: 50446