Staff Nurse Annie PrincePrint Page 
The wooden plaque commemorates Staff Nurse Annie Prince who died during the influenza epidemic in 1919, while helping victims at the Exhibition Building Hospital in Melbourne.
MELBOURNE, Sunday. The authorities at the Exhibition Hospital reported tonight that 80 per cent, of the cases admitted during the last three days had been pneumonic on admission. The death occurred yesterday at Exhibition Hospital of Staff Nurse Annie Prince, aged 28 years. This is the second member of the nursing staff of the hospital who has died.
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), 3 March 1919.
Location
| Address: | Northern Highway , Tooborac Mechanics Institute, Tooborac, 3522 |
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| State: | VIC |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -37.038949 Long: 144.798459 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Plaque |
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| Monument Theme: | People |
| Sub-Theme: | Medicine |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 01-March-1919 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 01-March-1919 |
Dedication
Erected by the women of Tooborac
In honour of Staff Nurse Annie Prince A.T.N.A.
Who sacrificed her life in response to the call of the suffering.
Exhibition Hospital
Melbourne 1st March 1919
Life`s work well done
