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  Sydney Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South Wing officially became the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint In Its establishment required the extensive internal remodelling of the former hospital wing for accommodation for the Mint Master, administrative offices and receiving and storage rooms for bullion.
In 1993-5 the museum was re-developed as the Sydney Mint Museum, focussing on the impact of the Gold Rush years on New South Wales and the role of The Mint as a coining factory.
A royal commission on public charities in 1873 condemned the Sydney Infirmary, accusing the management committee of neglect and interfering in the duties of the nurses.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Hospital   (2256 words)

  
 Judith Godden | Bathsheba Ghost, Matron of the Sydney Infirmary 1852–66 : a Silenced Life | Labour History, 87 | ...
Given the rapid increase of population, and poor levels of health, the significance of Sydney Hospital was scarcely diminished by the founding of a second general hospital in Sydney, St Vincent's Hospital by the Sisters of Charity, in 1857.
She was commemorated in 1864 as having worked at the Infirmary for 20 years, suggesting she found employment at the hospital as soon as she was granted her ticket of leave.
When the Infirmary Board commended Bathsheba Ghost for contributing to the 'general economy of the household', it was accurately describing her duties.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/87/godden.html   (8033 words)

  
 Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital
Sydney Hospital has always considered its heritage as deriving directly from Surgeon-General John White’s First Fleet sick tents which were pitched on the west side of Sydney Cove.
From the Sydney Dispensary sprang a remarkable tradition of outpatient care which included visits by honorary doctors to the homes of patients too ill to attend the dispensary.
Had it been possible to reserve the Rum Hospital complex for hospital purposes only; or even, had the infirmary and dispensary managed to obtain clear title to the central portion earlier than 1878; it seems to me that our acrimonious 100 year struggle for survival could have been avoided.
www.sesahs.nsw.gov.au /sydhosp/History_2.asp   (649 words)

  
 Female Firebrands and Reformers - Lucy Osborn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
When Henry Parkes, New South Wales politician (pre-Federation), was concerned about the state of the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary, he appealled for help to Florence Nightingale for trained nurses.
A royal commission (1873) on public charities condemened the Sydney Informary, accusing the mangement committee of neglect and interfering in the duties of the nurses - Lucy was vindicated and the commission praised her work toward the improvement in the standards of nursing.
Lucy retired from nursing (1878) and four years later (1880) the Infirmary's name was changed to the Sydney Hospital - Lucy had achieved her objectives.
www.geocities.com /eschiva/osborn.html   (261 words)

  
 Dr Henry Jeanneret 1802 - 1886
Entitled "Hints on the Preservation of the Teeth", it dealt with a subject of neglected health that was of singular importance to all in the Colony - soldiers, convicts and free settlers alike.
On arriving in Sydney, he applied for a reserve grant but was told that he must take out a bond for five hundred pounds to remain in the colony for three years.
When in Sydney, he took great interest in everything tending to the advancement of the colony, and by his advocacy of the establishment of Schools of Art and his lectures on scientific subjects helped to develop the resources of the colony.
www.users.bigpond.com /jeanneret/DrHJeanneret.htm   (4759 words)

  
 EJANZH: Articles:
A ttended South Infirmary Cork, and the Cork Ophthalmic and Aural Hosp.
Assistant to Dr. T. Belgrave, of Sydney; pupil to the late Dr. Tuttell, of Ventnor, for three years; attended various hospitals on operation days; acted as Locum Tenens and General Assistant in Engl and.
Apprenticed to J. Stallard in 1847; attended Hospital practice at Leicester Infirmary, the General Dispensary, Union Workhouse Infirmary, and St. Mark's District in the Union.
www.h-net.org /~anzau/journal/articles/bruck3.htm   (1839 words)

  
 Melissa Kerr | Struggling for Recognition: the Individual in Labour History | Labour History, 86 | The History ...
Kate Deverall also adopted a biographical approach of the experience of the Golding sisters to examine women's quest for legitimacy within the overwhelmingly male-dominated NSW Australian Labor Party during the first decades of the twentieth century.
Judith Godden demonstrated how in a biographical account of a working-class individual, Matron Bathsheba Ghost, she discovered the workings of a major pre-industrial institution, the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary from 1852–66.
John Shields emphasised the suitability of collective biography for addressing one of the core concerns of labour history, that of acknowledging simultaneously the agency of the individual within the collective as well as the influence of the collective on the individual.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/86/kerr.html   (854 words)

  
 Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin (1835 - 1914) - Senate - The University of Sydney
Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin was born in Scotland and was educated at home and at the University of St Andrews where he graduated MA in 1854, having obtained numerous prizes and scholarships during the course.
He was associated as an honorary with a number of institutions, including St Vincent’s Hospital (1874-76) and the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (1873-84).
MacLaurin, well recognised for his business acumen, oversaw the shrewd investment of the private funds of the University in properties adjacent to the University and in the CBD of Sydney.
www.usyd.edu.au /senate/history/MacLaurin.shtml   (340 words)

  
 AIM25: Royal London Hospital: ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL RECORDS
Administrative/Biographical history: The London Infirmary, as it was originally called, was established in the Autumn of 1740 by a group of seven men, including John Harrison, a surgeon, Josiah Cole, an apothecary and Fotherley Baker, a lawyer.
Management of the infirmary was originally in the hands of all the subscribers but, as they increased in numbers, this became impracticable.
In May 1741 the infirmary moved to rented premises in Prestcot Street, but it was soon apparent that converted houses were not adequate buildings.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/23/3899.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Holden, Frances Gillam (1843 - 1924) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
HOLDEN, FRANCES GILLAM (1843-1924), nurse, was born on 9 February 1843 at Ellalong, Brisbane Water, New South Wales, eldest daughter of Alfred Holden, police magistrate, and his wife Jane, née Osborne, and niece of G.
Rosamund returned to Sydney about 1879 to nurse at the new Hospital for Sick Children, Glebe, that their cousin J.
The keynote of her papers on hospital reform was always the quality of the nurses: 'to reform the nursing staff is to reform the hospital'.
www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A090335b.htm   (813 words)

  
 Osburn, Lucy - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Lucy Osburn was Lady Superintendent of the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (later Sydney Hospital) 1868-84 and the founder of Nightingale nursing in Australia.
Parkes’s request was for a team of nurses to be sent to the colony to introduce Florence Nightingale’s style of nursing at the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary and also to train nurses in Nightingale’s methods for hospitals throughout the colony.
Lucy Osburn arrived in Sydney on 5 March 1868 and a week later was supervising the nursing of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Victoria’s second son, who had been shot in an attempted assassination.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P004670b.htm   (1405 words)

  
 The Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
If ZERO TOLERANCE is the way to quell rioting in Sydney then the place to start is with public officials who appear to have subtle reasons for engendering a feeling of elitism in selected sections of the community as a way to curry favour with community power players.
Sydney likes to run the affairs of the rest of NSW because it distracts attention from its own problems.
It is more than 'common knowledge around the village' that since the introduction of the National Gun Laws, brought about by the tragedy at Port Arthur, the Middle Eastern communities have continued to steadily build up their stockpile of illegal weapons, particularly firearms, in flagrant disregard for the law of the land.
forum.onlineopinion.com.au /thread.asp?article=3963   (11689 words)

  
 Turriff, Haldane Colquhoun (1834 - 1922) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In August 1866 she entered the Nightingale Training School attached to St Thomas's Hospital, London, and was selected as one of the five nurses to accompany Lucy Osburn to the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary in December 1867.
Her arrival in Sydney on 5 March 1868 in the Dunbar Castle was enlivened the next week by the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh and she was one of the two nurses who cared for him.
She gave notice in January 1880 and on 6 March married a widower William Gilmour Murray, who was a respected senior member of the shipping firm of Gibbs, Bright & Co., and opened its Sydney office in 1875.
www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A060338b.htm   (736 words)

  
 The Hon Sir Arthur Renwick (1837-1908) - Senate - The University of Sydney
The Hon Sir Arthur Renwick, physician, philanthropist and politician, was born on 30 May 1837 at Glasgow, Scotland.
He was educated at the Redfern Grammar School and, in 1853, he matriculated at the University of Sydney (BA, 1857).
After further research courses in Glasgow, London and Paris, in 1862 he returned to Sydney and lived at Redfern where he soon established a growing practice and was skilled in forensic surgery.
www.usyd.edu.au /senate/VC_Renwick.shtml   (226 words)

  
 Roberts, Alfred - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Alfred Roberts was Surgeon to the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary 1855-1898 and involved in the establishment of the Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and other medical institutions.
Osburn, Lucy (1836 - 1891) - Alfred Roberts was an honorary surgeon at Sydney Hospital when he campaigned for the introduction of Nightingale nursing in New South Wales.
He later opposed Lucy Osburn and was a founder of (later Royal) Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P000150b.htm   (125 words)

  
 West Penwith Resources - Extracts from The West Briton 1887 newspaper (2)
Henry Grenfell, M.R.C.S. house-surgeon to the Penzance Dispensary and Infirmary, aged 47.
Henry Grenfell, M.R.C.S., house-surgeon to the Penzance Dispensary and Infirmary, died at his residence, Morrab's-road, Penzance.
A.E. Sydney, made a receiving order against W.C. Borlase, late M.P. For St. Austell, and of Laregan, Penzance, Cornwall, and Bond-street, W. The petitioning creditor is Mr.
west-penwith.org.uk /wb18872.htm   (7069 words)

  
 BROSELEY SANITARY COMMITTEE
E.­ Clarke relative to the death of Charles Bagley of Broseley, who died in the Salop Infirmary, on Sunday, from injuries received in a swing boat accident.
M., in opening the meeting, said he was pleased to see from the returns of the lodges in the district that there had been, during the past six months, a substantial increase in the membership, and that satisfactory progress was being made financially in each of the lodges.– The auditors, Messrs.
Hancock and F. Clarke, presented their report, which was received and adopted.– Funeral claims from the lodged in the district, amounting to £30, were made and allowed, and the C.S. was instructed to remit two guineas to Salop Infirmary.– Mr.
www.broseley.org.uk /Papers/1899.htm   (11227 words)

  
 Lancaster Priory Time Line
At the Ceremony, music is provided by the bands of the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and the 5th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers with the High Sheriff's Trumpeters sounding the fanfare.
The Royal School of Church Music is founded by Sir Sydney Nicholson, Organist of Westminster Abbey.
The Parish Psalter with Chants, by Sydney H. Nicholson, is published.
www.priory.lancs.ac.uk /timeline.html   (11400 words)

  
 Biographies for Gowlland family website
In Sydney he met and befriended Francis Lord, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the second son of Simeon Lord, the noted entrepreneur.
He returned to Sydney, accompanied by his sister Eliza Cecilia, on the SS "Hydaspes" from Brindisi to Melbourne, and thereafter, on the final stage of the voyage from Melbourne to Sydney, on the SS "Ellora", arriving on 8th May 1874: click here for the passenger list.
On 14 August 1874 when he was taking soundings off Dobroyd Point in Sydney Harbour the rowing boat was swamped when a heavy ‘roller’ rose up without warning and capsized the boat.
www.gowlland.me.uk /biographies.htm   (11009 words)

  
 Volume 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Prima inter pares was dear, kindly Miss Ada Levien, whose "yard" and humble cottage were on the lane that ran by the old Arcade.
He graduated in medicine and surgery at Bellevue in the United States, returned to Jamaica in the 1880s, and spent the rest of his life ministering to a large loving and beloved clientele, finding time also to run a dairy farm at Lapland, near Catadupa.
So far as I knew, he was the first medical man in Jamaica to own an X-Ray machine (of sorts) and also to perform successfully the delicate operation on the facial nerves for the very painful tic douloureux.
www.demercado.com /ansell.htm   (16505 words)

  
 McGill Teaching and Research
His teaching activities are reflected by a file of plans, reports and memoranda on the organization of the Geology Department Map Library (1959-1969) and an outline with some draft chapters of a student's thesis (1969).
Margaret Gillett was born in Australia and educated at the University of Sydney, in England and in the United States.
In 1864 he retired from the army, and began to practise in Montréal as a surgeon to local regiments and staff member of the Montreal Dispensary, the Montreal General Hospital, and the Children's Hospital.
www.archives.mcgill.ca /resources/guide/vol2_3/gen01.htm   (17380 words)

  
 Nursing Education in Multicultural Context
Nightingale’s system of nurse education was transported to Australia with Lucy Osborne who established the first School of Nursing at Sydney Hospital in 1868.
Australian standards of nursing education and licensure evolved during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Lynette Russell, Foundation Dean at the Faculty of Nursing at Sydney University, has collaborated in a comparative history of nursing education documenting this evolution: ‘The Nightingale model of nurse training was introduced into Australia in 1868 by Lucy Osborn, a Nightingale trainee, at what was then the Sydney infirmary.
www.dest.gov.au /highered/nursing/pubs/multi_cultural/4.htm   (1188 words)

  
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The Medway School of Pharmacy is set to grow substantially over the next six years and student numbers are expected to rise to over 30 by 2010.
The School's first-class facilities include new research and teaching laboratories, state-of-the-art pharmaceutical equipment and a new training dispensary which will give students the chance to gain practical experience in a retail setting.
In 2001 my father and I moved from exciting Sydney, with its heavy traffic and pollution, to laid-back Adelaide to live near my brother and enjoy a relaxed lifestyle.
www.kent.ac.uk /alumni/news/kent/autumn2004.txt   (12935 words)

  
 HPS @ UNSW
School of History and Philosophy of Science - University of New South Wales - Sydney - NSW - Australia - 2052
Two Sydney institutions aimed at the diminution of vice, or the alleviation of misery: Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (now Sydney Hospital) and St Vincent's Hospital in the late nineteenth-century
The Sydney Water Boardís clean water ways programme: cleaner water and changing attitudes to environmental protection.
hps.arts.unsw.edu.au /hps_content/research_comm/hons_list.htm   (768 words)

  
 Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI) - Picture Gallery
It was known as the "Rum Hospital", because it was constructed by a contractor whose payment took the form of a license to import spirits.
The Sydney Infirmary of colonial times was the predecessor of the modern Sydney Hospital, and the direct descendent of the first hospital at Sydney Cove (1788).
This photograph shows Dr. Edward Davy and his wife, with their horse and buggy, outside the Malmsbury Dispensary (taken in about 1870).
www.medicalpioneers.com /gallery.htm   (922 words)

  
 Biographies of Honorary (Unpaid) Lunacy Commissioners 1828- 1912
Thomas Townshend, who had brought in the 1774 Madhouses Act, was Home Secretary and chief Government spokesman in the Commons under Shelburne from 1782 to April 1783.
Created Lord Sydney in 1783 he was Home Secretary (in the Lords) under Pitt from December 1783 to June 1789.
Sydney, Australia is named after him because he was Home Secretary when transportation of convicts to Australia was developed to relieve English prisons.
www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/6BIOH.htm   (10168 words)

  
 Norwich - Kelly's 1883
Michael-at-Plea, in Queen street, is an ancient cruciform flint stone building, consisting of chancel, nave and two transepts, low tower and 1 bell: there are a few brasses and mural monuments and some old panel paintings.
The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich, and held since 1877 by the Rev. Sydney Linton
St. Philip's Rooms, formerly the temporary church, are now sued as Sunday schools and for parish purposes.
apling.freeservers.com /Villages/Norwich.htm   (5596 words)

  
 Victorian London - Directories - Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles Dickens, Jr., 1879 - "D"
LONDON INFIRMARY FOR DISEASES OF THE LEGS, ULCERS AND VARIOSE VEINS, andC., 1, Red Lion-square: Surgeon Thomas Westlake, M.R.C.S. TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL, 112, Gower-street: Medical Officers.—J.
Robert King, Dr. Sydney Coupland, and Dr. R.
Nixon; Physicians.—Wilson Fox, M.D. F.R.S., Sydney Ringer, M.D. Henry Charlton Bastian, M.D., F.R.S., and F. Roberts, M.D. Assistant Physicians.
www.victorianlondon.org /dickens/dickens-d.htm   (4748 words)

  
 Sydney in 1855 Map
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Sydney in 1855 - See East Sydney 1855
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