Southland Hospital & Kew Bush

Kew has cared for Southland for over a century. The first Fever Hospital opened here in 1908, followed by Kew Hospital in 1937 — praised for its sunshine-filled wards and a brick from Florence Nightingale’s London home. Survive the dramatic 1939 fire, meet “Florence” the 1959 VW Kombi ambulance, and step into Kew Bush, a rare 3.3-hectare remnant of ancient lowland forest thriving within the hospital grounds.