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Feast Day at Liverpool Asylum 24 July 1886

Feast Day at Liverpool Asylum 24 July 1886

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State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 14 August 1886, p16)

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Benevolent Society of New South Wales

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Mei Quong Tart

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Benevolent Society and Asylum

The Benevolent Society, and the asylum (and later hospitals, clinics and aged care centres) it ran, provided care and sustenance to Sydney's poorest from the 1820s. Although it was founded under the auspices of the Colonial Auxiliary Bible Society, it gradually became a secular, independent non-profit organisation.

Benevolent asylums

Eating and Drinking

Benevolent Society of New South Wales

An early charitable society, founded in 1813 and renamed the Benevolent Society in 1818, that became one of Sydney's largest health and welfare providers.

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Mei Quong Tart

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Chinese immigrant who made his fortune on the Victorian goldfields and settled in Sydney, where he became a well-known and respected businessman.

Liverpool

South-western suburb based around the town founded by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810, which remained a satellite town of Sydney until suburban development incorporated it into the city in the mid-twentieth century.

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Liverpool State Hospital

Tent hospital established in the 1790s beside the Georges River and replaced by first a brick then stone building. Currently in use as part of the TAFE campus. New buildings replaced the old in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s. It is now the teaching hospital for the University of Western Sydney.

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