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Hospital

Type - Hospital
New South Wales Community Hospital, Moore Park (Langton Clinc)
Bayview House
Benevolent Asylum
Camden Cottage Hospital
Catherine Hayes Hospital
Colonial Hospital
Crown Street Women Hospital
General Hospital The Rocks
Jeffery House
Kirkbride
Liverpool State Hospital
Parramatta Lunatic Asylum Ward 1
Rachel Forster Hospital, Pitt Street, Redfern
Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
Royal Hospital for Women
Seacombe Private Hospital
Second Hospital Parramatta
Sydney Dental Hospital
Tent Hospital
The Laurels, Kogarah
Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital building
Yaralla house
1938 - 2011

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Hospital

New South Wales Community Hospital, Moore Park (Langton Clinc)

The NSW Community Hospital on the corner of Nobbs and South Dowling Street in Surry Hills opened as the Langton Clinic in 1929 as a unit of St Margaret's Hospital for Women and Children. It was incorporated as the Community Hospital in 1931. In mid 1959 the Langton Clinic began to operate as an experimental specialist unit for the treatment of alcoholism and the hospital facilities were gradually closed.

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Bayview House

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Situated near the Cooks River near Tempe, the building was a private residence before it operated as a 'private lunatic asylum' with its first patient admitted on 8 November 1865. The asylum was owned by Dr George Tucker and was opened as an alternative for those who considered confinement in a government asylum 'repulsive to their feelings'. Initially it was licensed for 35 patients and one newspaper article notes that many of its patients 'owed their derangement' to the consumption of absinthe.

Benevolent Asylum

Asylum constructed by the Benevolent Society in 1821 to provide shelter and care to the poor, aged and infirm. Adjacent to the Old Sydney Burial Ground (Devonshire Street Cemetery), it was demolished to make way for the current Central Railway Station in 1901.

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Camden Cottage Hospital

Hospital erected predominantly by community contribution comprising two wards and an infectious diseases cottage.

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Catherine Hayes Hospital

Two storey, 4 ward hospital built following the death of 77 children from whooping cough in 1867 at the Randwick Asylum. Funded by a donation from the Irish singer Catherine Hayes and public subscription, it was to to care for children that suffered from illness, poverty and famine. The plans were apparently approved by Florence Nightingale.

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Colonial Hospital

Third convict hospital erected on the site which after 1848 provided medical support for not just convicts but for all in the Parramatta area.

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Crown Street Women Hospital

Designed as a three storey 75 bed maternity hospital which could also provide visiting maternity nurses within a one mile radius, the brick building was constantly modified to provide better facilities until closure in 1983 saw it converted to apartments.

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General Hospital The Rocks

Tent hospital erected between Harrington and George streets from prefabricated materials and canvas, much of it brought out by the Second Fleet.

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Jeffery House

Moderne style medical building which was once part of the Parramatta Hospital Precinct.

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Kirkbride

First purpose built hospital for moral therapy treatment of the insane. It became part of Callan park Hospital and is now occupied by Sydney College of the Arts.

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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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Parramatta Lunatic Asylum Ward 1

Ward constructed from the sandstone blocks of the Female Factory for 100 male inmates of the asylum. The clock from the original Female Factory was also included in the building's tower.

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Rachel Forster Hospital, Pitt Street, Redfern

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Hospital building constructed in 1941 in Pitt Street Redfern on the site of  William Redfern's cottage by the Rachel Forster Hospital organisation to expand on their smaller premises on George Street, Redfern. The building on Pitt Street was in use for 60 years before being abandoned with the intention of using the site for high rise residences.

Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children

Large sandstone asylum for 400 children built on 60 acres at High Cross Randwick by the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children. A new wing built in 1863 housed a further 400 children. During World War I it was used as a military hospital for wounded and disabled returned servicemen.

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Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children

Hospital for children constructed at Camperdown to alleviate the congestion at the Sydney Hospital for Sick Children at Glebe. It was in use until the hospital moved to new premises in Westmead in 1995. The building was then converted to apartments.

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Royal Hospital for Women

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Hospital constructed for the Benevolent Society on Oxford Street Paddington around the Therry house, Flinton. Partly demolished in 1997 for repurposing as apartments.

Seacombe Private Hospital

Private hospital at 16 Wolseley Street, Drummoyne that operated between 1912 and the 1950s. The building had formerly been a private residence called 'Seacombe'.

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Second Hospital Parramatta

Clay brick hospital consisting of two wards and outbuildings. As they were constructed without lime they proved only marginally more stable than the original hospital and soon suffered deterioration and overcrowding.

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Sydney Dental Hospital

Modernist hospital building associated with the University of Sydney as the site of the original School of Dentistry which provides free orthodontic and dental services and was considered world best practise when designed in the 1930s.

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Tent Hospital

Two thatched sheds hastily erected to to cope with the high rate of illness of convicts who worked and lived in harsh conditions.

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The Laurels, Kogarah

House in English Street, Kogarah that was built in 1886 by Edmond English. It was being used as a private hospital in 1918. The United Protested Association have run a girls home there between 1950 and 1978 and an aged care facility since 1978.

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Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital building

Hospital endowed by Thomas Walker on his estate Yaralla for convalescents who were sent from other hospitals to the greenery and fresh air of the hospital on the river at Concord. Designed by John Sulman and opened in 1893. The complex, including the Joanna Walker Memorial Childrens’ Convalescent Hospital that was also in the grounds, was transferred to the New South Wales Health Department in 1979. It is now occupied by the Rivendell School and the Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Service.

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Yaralla house

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House in the Victorian Italianate style, built for Thomas Walker in 1857 on land granted to Isaac Nichols in 1797.