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Australasian Medical Unit

Australasian Medical Unit

Australasian Medical Unit,

Barkingside,

Ilford,

Essex.

Opened in 1911 as a general hospital, modern and well equipped for its day. Children were admitted from all Barnardo homes and foster homes. Later combined with John Capel Hanbury Hospital and became a home for children with physical and learning disabilities.

Closed July 1975. Children transferred to New Mossford.