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Lady Denison opening new wing at Rachel Forster Hospital 21 August 1926

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Redfern
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Rachel Forster Hospital
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Denison, Sara Rachel
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Clyde House

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Rachel Forster Hospital

The Rachel Forster Hospital has provided services to women since 1922 including training for female doctors, and later nurses. Until the 1960s its staff were almost exclusively female. It became a public hospital in 1930 and developed into a centre for innovation in the treatment of breast cancer and orthopaedic surgery before closing in 2000.

 

 

 

Medicine

Women's health

Women

Charity and Philanthropy

Redfern

Inner-city suburb located immediately south of the central business district whose sandhills were first settled by Chinese market gardeners and later by Aboriginal people who migrated to work in the local factories. Today it is a rich blend of public housing, renovated terraces, light industry and arts precincts.

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Rachel Forster Hospital

Women's hospital established in 1922 in Surry Hills by Lucy Gullett and Harriet Biffin before moving to Redfern. It was named for Lady Forster, the wife of the Governor General.

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Denison, Sara Rachel

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Wife of Sir Hugh Robert Denison, newspaper proprieter and the grandson of Hugh Dixson.

Clyde House

Two storey Victorian Filigree style residence built by timber merchant George Hudson for his son which later became the first Rachel Forster Hospital building.

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