Sydney Hospital
| Sydney Hospital | |
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| South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service | |
View from Macquarie Street
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| Geography | |
| Location | Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Coordinates | 33°52′05″S 151°12′45″E / 33.868157°S 151.21238°ECoordinates: 33°52′05″S 151°12′45″E / 33.868157°S 151.21238°E |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (AU) |
| Hospital type | General |
| Affiliated university | University of New South Wales University of Sydney |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 113 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1788. Current site 1811 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Australia |
Sydney Hospital is a major hospital in Australia, located on Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district. It is the oldest hospital in Australia, dating back to 1788, and has been at its current location since 1811. It first received the name Sydney Hospital in 1881.
Currently the hospital comprises 113 inpatient beds. Specialist services attract patients from all over New South Wales. It specialises in ophthalmology and hand surgery and is a referral hospital for patients requiring these services. It also houses a rudimentary 6-bed Emergency Department.
Sydney Hospital became a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney in 1909. Sydney Hospital is associated with Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney through the Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health and Save Sight Institute. It is also the location of a number of research institutes associated with the University, including the Heart Research Institute, the Centenary Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology and the General Endocrinology Group.
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. Present-day Nurses Walk in The Rocks cuts across where the site of the early hospital once was. John White was Surgeon-General at Sydney Cove between 1788 and 1794.
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