HOSPITAL RUN BY WOMEN
OFFICIAL SYDNEY OPENING The Rachel Forster 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)'with only six beds and three cots. The new building, which has special emergency operating theatres and 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 £BOO. The new hospital, which cost £140,000, 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 the 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24817, 17 January 1942, Page 9
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