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Susan Schardt
https://blueplaques.nsw.gov.au/_designs/integrations/funnelback-integration/blue-plaque-indexers/blue-plaque-xml-indexer/_nocache?asset=581016- icon:
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- 2025-03-23 20:24:54
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- Susan Schardt
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- 2112
- cityName:
- Ryde
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- Royal Rehab, Susan Schardt Way
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- 235 Morrison Road
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- Community and philanthropy, Health and medicine
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- Ryde is on the traditional lands of the Wallumedegal Clan of the Darug nation
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- <p>Susan Katherina Schardt was a philanthropist and founder of the institution that is now known as Royal Rehab. Susan was born sight impaired and devoted her life to assisting other people with disabilities during a time when support services were limited. Susan was influential in changing social attitudes towards disability and Royal Rehab is now Australia's longest continuously operating disability service provider,</p>
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- Susan Katherina Schardt was a philanthropist and founder of the institution that is now known as Royal Rehab. Susan was born sight impaired and devoted her life to assisting other people with disabilities during a time when support services were limited.
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- <p>Philanthropist and founder of Royal Rehab (1872–1934)</p>
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Little Company of Mary Sisters
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- 2025-03-28 12:52:39
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- 2650
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- Calvary Riverina Hospital 26-36 Hardy Ave Wagga Wagga
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- Health and medicine, Community and philanthropy
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- Wagga Wagga is on the land of the Wiradjuri people
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- <p>The Little Company of Mary, a Catholic religious order, established the Calvary Hospital in Wagga Wagga in 1926.</p><div><p paraid="1739393381" paraeid="{227338b2-f649-435d-b9cf-d408a8c9baea}{54}">The Sisters of this order – also known as the ‘Blue Sisters’ after the blue veils they wore – played a vital role in providing compassionate healthcare to the people of the Riverina district and beyond.</p></div><div><p paraid="1951294808" paraeid="{227338b2-f649-435d-b9cf-d408a8c9baea}{64}">Today, the hospital continues to serve the local community.</p></div>
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- The Little Company of Mary, a Catholic religious order, established the Calvary Hospital in Wagga Wagga in 1926.
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- <p>Founded in 1877</p><p>Devoted carers of the sick and dying</p>
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Dr Mark Lidwill
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- 2025-03-28 12:56:01
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- Dr Mark Lidwill
- addressLine1:
- Arden Anglican School 63 Beecroft Road, Beecroft, 2119
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- Health and medicine, Science and technology
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- Beecroft is on the lands of the Wallumedegal people of the Eora Nation
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- <p>Dr Mark Cowley Lidwill was an Australian medical pioneer, who started his career as a general practitioner at Cook House (then called 'Lorne'), Beecroft, in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney.</p><p>Mark invented the world’s first cardiac pacemaker after discovering electricity could be used to set the pace of the human heart. The device was first used successfully in 1928 to resuscitate a newborn baby. Since then, this miracle of medical technology has saved innumerable lives.</p><p>He also invented a portable machine to induce anaesthesia, which became a widely accepted part of hospital practice.</p>
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- Medical pioneer Dr Mark Lidwill (1878–1968) invented the world’s first cardiac pacemaker, which has saved innumerable lives.
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- <p>Medical pioneer (1878–1968)</p>
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Thomas Fiaschi
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- 2025-03-28 12:27:09
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- cityName:
- Ebenezer
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- Tizzana Winery
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- 518 Tizzana Road
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- Health and medicine, Agriculture, Wartime
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- traditionalName:
- Ebenezer is on the land of the Dharug people.
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- <p>Dr Thomas Fiaschi was a pioneering surgeon and distinguished military doctor who served on the battlefields of Abyssinia, the Boer War and the First World War. After migrating in 1875 to Australia from his native Italy, he worked as a surgeon in Windsor and Sydney.</p><p>Noted for his pioneering work, including his breakthrough use of antisepsis in surgery, people came to him for treatment from all over the state. In a lifetime of service and contribution to medicine, he also established the Tizzana Winery in the Hawkesbury, gaining prominence as an expert winemaker.</p>
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- Dr Thomas Fiaschi (1853-1927) was a pioneering surgeon, distinguished military doctor and expert winemaker.
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