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    • Ambulance
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    • Ambulance

      Take a look at some of our early ambulance and rescue history that helped shaped the Coast

    • Doctor Francis Short

      Dr Short established a private practice in Nambour in 1919

    • Midwives

      The significant contribution midwives played in the early days of the Sunshine Coast

    • Ethel Booth

      Ethel’s family moved to a farm between Woombye and Nambour in 1919. In 1930 she began her nursing training in Brisbane. She worked in nursing up until her retirement from Selangor Hospital in 1971

    • Peggy Payne

      Peggy was formally Peggy Short, the youngest daughter of Dr Francis John Short. Dr Short came to Nambour in 1919 as one of the first doctors

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