Tony Mussert writes of the efforts of his mother, Gwen Mussert, to care for and help TB patients, dependant elderly people in need, and young unmarried pregnant girls in the 1940s and later. Merriegum was closed and bulldozed in the mid-1960s.
Merriegum, Centre Dandenong Road, c1949. Watercolour painted by a young female TB patient. She slept on the front porch.
![Merriegum, Centre Dandenong Road c1949. Watercolour painted by a young female TB patient [picture].](https://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/styles/modal_image/public/photos/merriegum_01.jpg?itok=j__ZJ3F4)
![Merriegum, c1963 [picture].](https://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/styles/modal_image/public/photos/merriegum_02.jpg?itok=vXMEE-Fm)