Hospitals & sanatoriums
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New transfer of Parramatta and Rydalmere hospital records
The State Archives Collection has just received an important set of mental health records from Western Sydney Local Health District. The transfer is particularly exciting as we thought that these records were lost!
Mental health patient records
This webinar explores the surviving patient records created by government mental health facilities that are held within the State Archives Collection
Cultivating a therapeutic landscape
Tracing the evolution of the Parramatta Female Factory to a hospital
Out of the Shadows c.1945
A film produced by the NSW Department of Health for the purpose of recruiting nurses for NSW Mental Health hospitals
Convicts and scorbutus at the General ‘Rum’ Hospital
Convicts who were lucky enough to survive the transportation voyage, often arrived at Sydney Cove suffering infectious disease or other illness, and were admitted directly to the colony’s General 'Rum' Hospital
How the ‘Sidney Slaughter House’ got its name
During archaeological excavations at the Rum Hospital south wing (now The Mint) on Sydney’s Macquarie Street in 1980-81, a few small traces of the site’s dark and often painful past were discovered
What was the ‘Rum’ Hospital?
Between 1816 and 1848, the General Hospital on Sydney’s Macquarie Street, provided medical care for the colony’s convict workforce