SYDNEY HOSPITAL
run entirely by women MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORK The Rachel Forstcr Hospital in Sydney, the only hospital in New South Wales which is run entirely by women, was officially opened recently by Lady Wakehurst. The first " Rachel Forster Hospital was opened in Surrey Hills (one of Sydney's crowded industrial areas) witli only six beds and three cots. The new building, which has special emergency operating theatres find an air raid shelter in the basement, accommodates 124 beds. A public ward of 16 beds at the new hospital—which is for women and children patients—will be furnished by the Government at a cost of £800. The new hospital, which cost £110000, besides being -the only hospital run by women, is the only hospital where working women can receive medical and surgical treatment at night. The- hospital is now working for (he establishment of a convalescent home in the country where every woman patient can be sent for a fortnight's rest and every child for three weeks.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 3
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166SYDNEY HOSPITAL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 3
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