Doll's Hospital

The business eventually acquired an international reputation for its restoration workshop, including media coverage in the Illustrated Sydney News, "Patients are admitted for broken heads, or fractured limbs, loss of hair, eyes, nose, teeth, fingers, hands, toes, and wasting away of the body.

"[2] In 1948, the owners of the Doll's Hospital building were victims of the serial killer John Haigh, the so-called Acid Bath Murderer, who was himself hanged the following year.

[5][10] With the aid of forged documents, Haigh emptied the couple's bank accounts, and sold their jewellery, car and property.

"[12] Despite the eventual revelation of the murder of the building owners by an infamous serial killer, the business known as the Doll's Hospital continued.

[5] In its latter years, the Doll's Hospital was run by John Smith, Clarke's son-in-law, until it closed down sometime after 1989,[1] to be replaced with a non-descript bar.