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The Rachel Forster Hospital's fifth birthday ce...

The Rachel Forster Hospital's fifth birthday celebrations, Redfern 1927

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[The Bulletin, 3 November 1927, p44 (detail) via Trove]

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Biffin, Harriett Eliza Rachel Forster Hospital

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Hospitals Medicine Women Women's health

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Rachel Forster Hospital

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Biffin, Harriet Eliza Ogilvie, Kate Sutton, Harvey

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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.

Biffin, Harriett Eliza

Harriett Biffin was a pioneer Sydney woman doctor. One of the second group of women to graduate in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1898, she was the first to establish a women’s joint medical practice in Sydney and a suburban general medical practice, and founded both The Medical Women’s Society of New South Wales and the Rachel Forster Hospital with Dr Lucy Edith Gullett.

Women's health

Hospitals

Women

Medicine

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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Biffin, Harriet Eliza

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Medical practioner who was one of the first women medical graduates in the state. She worked tirelessly for the establishment of a hospital run for and by women.

Sutton, Harvey

Professor of medicine at the University of Sydney with particular interests in public health and preventative medicine.

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Ogilvie, Kate

Social worker and educator who was a formidable champion of the profession in theory and practice.

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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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