Lecture: The Lady Bowen Lying-in Hospital
Sun, 14 June
|Bowen Hills
Join the honorary curator of the Museum of Nursing History to learn about the Lady Bowen Lying-in Hospital.
Time & Location
14 June 2026, 1:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Bowen Hills, 35 Jordan Terrace, Bowen Hills QLD 4006, Australia
About the event
Early midwifery practice in colonial Brisbane relied on untrained women. As the mortality rate for both mother and child was high, there was a need for a hospital to care for women in childbirth. Lady Bowen, wife of the first Queensland Governor, gave birth to three children at Government House. She recognised the need for those less fortunate to have a safe place to give birth. With a committee of ladies and some gentlemen she established the first maternity hospital, the Lady Bowen Lying-in Hospital, in Leichhardt Street in 1864. Former nurse Joy Wilson will share the 75-year history of this important institution.
About the speaker
Joy Wilson R.N. R.M. (ret) B.N. Dip. App. Sc Nr Ed F.C.N.A has had a career in nursing spanning 54 years. She completed General Nurse training in 1962 at the Brisbane Hospital and Midwifery at the Brisbane Women’s Hospital, now the Royal Brisbane…
Tickets
Member ticket
This ticket includes afternoon tea
$10.00
Non-member ticket
This ticket includes afternoon tea.
$15.00
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