About King Edward Memorial Hospital
King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH) opened its doors in 1916 following campaigning by prominent West Australian women including Edith Cowan, Mary Molloy (the wife of the Lord Mayor) and Deborah Hackett. The original hospital was housed on the site of a converted Government Industrial School on Barker Road in Subiaco, this building ‘Harvey House’ still makes up part of the grounds and is home to the WA Medical Museum.
As our State’s first maternity hospital, KEMH had three large wards for 20 patients, delivery rooms, an operating theatre, an isolation ward and staff quarters. The KEMH Advisory Board was established the same year it opened with Edith Cowan as a founding member.
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