Grosvenor Hospital was a psychiatric facility and disability institution established by the New South Wales Government at Summer Hill in 1965. It was operated by the Health Department and occupied the buildings that had formerly been the Benevolent Society’s Renwick Home for Infants, Summer Hill. It provided care for children until the 1980s. In 1985…
The Grosvenor Centre was the new name for the Grosvenor Hospital at Summer Hill. It was a residential institution for adults and children with intellectual disabilities and psychiatric illnesses. It was run by the Department of Health until 1989 when it was transferred to the Department of Community Services. In the 1998 the NSW Government…
The Liverpool State Hospital and Home was formerly the Liverpool Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute. It was a hospital and home that was for adults and young people in need of support, including people with disabilities. It was run by the New South Wales Government and operated from 1933 until 1962.
Margaret Harris Hospital was built at North Parramatta in 1917 by Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children as a hospital for children who were living in the Homes. It was later replaced by a larger building on Masons Drive, opposite the North Parramatta Burnside Homes. The last patient was discharged on 23 June 1982 and the…
St Gerard’s was run by the Sisters of St Joseph at St Anthony’s Croydon. It had formerly been St Anne’s Nursery. St Gerard’s was for married women and babies who needed care, treatment and recuperation after birth, and for single mothers and their babies, including those awaiting adoption. It was closed in 1980 and converted…
St Anne’s was a 10-bed maternity hospital for unmarried mothers. It was established by the Society of St Vincent de Paul at St Anthony’s Croydon in 1944, in a cottage beside the Kelly Wing. It was converted to a nursery in 1952.
The Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital for Crippled Children opened in 1937 at St Ives. It was a disability institution, a convalescent hospital and offered outpatients services. It the only specialist orthopaedic children’s hospital in Australia and took children from all over the country and Pacific nations. It closed in 1981. Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital for…
Garth was established by the Child Welfare Department in Willoughby in 1924. It was a home for the segregation and treatment of children, and mothers and babies, who were suffering from venereal disease. Not all children in the home carried venereal disease, as it also housed children with polio (infantile paralysis). A commission of inquiry…
Waterfall Sanatorium was opened on 14 April 1909 in Waterfall as a hospital for the treatment of patients, including children, who had advanced tuberculosis (TB). Patients were sent to Waterfall Sanatorium, often against their will, and were not released until cured. People who died there are buried on the site. Waterfall Sanatorium closed in 1958….
The Lady Edeline Hospital for Sick Babies was a government children’s hospital at Nielsen Park, in Vaucluse, in an historic house called ‘Greycliffe’. It began in 1914. It had 40 cots and was intended as a hospital to nurse babies who were sick with gastroenteritis, which was common in Sydney summer. It closed in 1936…
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