Crown Street Women's Hospital

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Crown Street Women's Hospital
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Crown Street Women's Hospital
Crown Street Women's Hospital
Geography
Location Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates 33°53′01″S151°12′51″E / 33.883645°S 151.214133°E / -33.883645; 151.214133
Organisation
Care system Public Medicare (AU)
Type Teaching
Affiliated university University of Sydney
Services
SpecialityWomen's hospital
History
Opened1893 [1]
Closed1983, services transferred to Westmead Hospital
Links
Lists Hospitals in Australia

Crown Street Women's Hospital (now-closed) was once the largest maternity hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was located at 351 Crown Street on the corner of Albion Streets, Surry Hills. [2]

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The hospital was one of several stand-alone maternity hospitals in Sydney, none of which remain. It opened in 1893, and was closed in 1983. During its 90-year life, it trained hundreds of midwives and doctors, and was a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. Many thousands of Sydney's residents were born there. When Westmead Hospital opened in Sydney's west, Crown Street Hospital's maternity facilities were moved there, along with the general medical and surgical departments of Sydney Hospital on Macquarie Street, and the hospital was closed.

The Canonbury annex was demolished around 1983, with the site redeveloped as part of McKell Park. [3]

History

Founded by Dr James Graham [4] [5] in 1893, the Women's Hospital was then in Hay Street and it had two beds for the "genteel poor". The first nurse was Hannah McLeod and she served for nineteen years. The hospital moved to Crown Street in 1897. [6]

It aimed to lift the medical standards for maternity care. In addition to providing wards for surgical cases and complicated births the Hospital provided treatment in homes. Initial funding of the Women's Hospital came from public subscription, obstetric nurse training and student fees, with assistance from the Government in obtaining furniture and surgical instruments. The Board of the Women's Hospital met for the first time on 13 August 1895.[ citation needed ]

One of the hospital's early achievements was to train Hannah McLeod as a midwife so that she could train women who were already acting as midwives without any medical certification. [6] On 30 October 1919 the Permanent Auxiliary Organisation was founded to centralise offers of assistance. Permanent Auxiliary Centres were opened at Abbotsford in 1933 and Bondi–Waverley in 1937. By its Golden Jubilee in 1943 Crown Street Women's Hospital had become the largest maternity hospital in New South Wales.[ citation needed ]

The hospital's nurseries were divided into five categories: D, Premature, Adoption, Founders Isolation and Main.

The Crown Street Women's Hospital was closed on 31 March 1983 and its facilities were transferred to Westmead Hospital. The Crown Street Women's Hospital Medical Records were transferred to Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick.

Hospital history timeline

Crown St Women's Hospital circa 1981 Crown St Women's Hospital front.jpg
Crown St Women's Hospital circa 1981

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