FIRST - General Hospital In Australia - Sydney, Australia
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BruceS
S 33° 51.611 E 151° 12.512
56H E 334281 N 6251902
Plaque marking the site of the first hospital in Australia on the front of a former police station in the Rocks area of Sydney.
Waymark Code: WMFRJC
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 11/23/2012
Views: 11
The hospital operated at this site from 1788 to 1816.
From Wikipedia:
"Many of the 736 convicts who survived the voyage of the First Fleet from Portsmouth, England arrived suffering from dysentery, smallpox, scurvy, and typhoid. Soon after landing Governor Phillip and Surgeon-General John White established a tent hospital along what is now George Street in The Rocks to care for the worst cases. Subsequent convict boatloads had even higher rates of death and disease. A portable hospital which was prefabricated in England from wood and copper arrived in Sydney with the Second Fleet in 1790."
FIRST - Classification Variable: Place or Location
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1788
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