8 Years an Inpatient

Ipswich Hospital’s Longest Inpatient Stay? Edward Molloy joined the Australian Army and after enlistment was discharged when the mine he worked for refused to let him enlist as the mining industry was seen as part of an essential service. He was later hurt in an accident in the Aberdare Extended mine. He was working as a rope rider (not his usual job) holding skips together, when he slipped and was paralysed. He spent eight years at the Ipswich General Hospital as a patient. He would later have some mobility in a motorised wheelchair.

Imagine the beurocrats’ of todays reaction to this.

SOURCE: Picture Ipswich