Just some information about the hospital and the doctor to go with the Death certificate.
IMPROVED HOSPITAL
FOR ARARAT?
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£19,000 Remodelling Plan
ARARAT, Wednesday plan to remodel the Ararat District Hospital at a cost of about £18,000 or £18,500, and to alter the infectious diseases ward at a cost of about £1,000, was submitted to
the hospital committee last night by a Melbourne firm of architects. Reconstruction of the main building to provide a long single-story facade is proposed.
The plan provides for the total accommodation of 43 beds, excluding the midwifery wards, but Including wards for intermediate patients.
Dr. de Crespigny said that the medical staff favoured the proposal to make the hospital modem, and it was generally felt that the present time was opportune to improve accommodation.
| The building committee will consider the plan before holding a conference with the inspector of charities. The Colac Hospital will be Inspected.
Published 20 September 1934
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10970212* * * *
Dr Frank de Crespigny, George was certainly under the care of one of the best doctors. God knows, we have a frightening shortage of medical physicians in the Central HighlandsGrampians Region of Victoria now.
FRANCIS PHILIP CHAMPION de CRESPIGNY
DOCTOR, MAYOR
28-5-1918 - 20-9-2010
BY MICHAEL COLLINS PERSSE
FRANK de Crespigny, a revered general practitioner at Ararat for 41 years and a former mayor of the south-western Victorian town, has died in Geelong after a fall. He was 92.
He came from an ancient family whose name "Champion" derived from descent in the male line from custodians of the castle of Falaise, birthplace of William the Conqueror, and hence Champions to the Dukes of Normandy. A 17th-century Richard Champion married the sole heiress of the Comtes de Crespigny. Their son, Champion de Crespigny and an officer in the French army, but a Huguenot, crossed the English Channel when persecution of Protestants revived and became a colonel in the British army.
Five generations later, Philip Champion de Crespigny, who in 1852 arrived in Victoria, was a gold warden and magistrate at Ararat. His elder son, twice married, fathered six sons of whom the second, Sir Trent, a founder and president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, was an older half-brother of Frank's father, Francis. [...]
Knowing his patients thoroughly, practising true "medical friendship", he became a skilled surgeon, anaesthetist, and obstetrician, trusted for his kindness and clinical acumen.
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