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1840 – Settlement of New Zealand as a colony and the establishment of state hospitals. [3] 1841 – People considered to be mentally ill were considered criminals. The first case of insanity in New Zealand's society was recorded in 1841. [7] 1847 – Wellington Hospital was established, The first New Zealand Hospital. [8]
Sydney Hospital, historically known as the Rum Hospital, is a major hospital in Sydney, 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.
The history of hospitals began in antiquity with hospitals in Greece, the Roman Empire and on the Indian subcontinent as well, starting with precursors in the Asclepian temples in ancient Greece and then the military hospitals in ancient Rome. The Greek temples were dedicated to the sick and infirm but did not look anything like modern hospitals.
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children [635] – Subiaco; Quairading Hospital – Quairading [636] Ravensthorpe Health Centre – Ravensthorpe [637] Rockingham General Hospital – Cooloongup [638] Roebourne Hospital – Roebourne [639] Royal Perth Hospital Shenton Park Campus [640] – Shenton Park; Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street ...
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
St Vincent's Hospital was the first hospital in Australia to develop a specialised emergency department (ED) in 1983 under Dr. Gordian Fulde. Fulde was the third person to register for the examinations in emergency medicine established by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in the United Kingdom in 1983, and the first person to pass them ...
The East Wing of the old RAH. Colonel Light had originally envisaged the hospital in the Eastern parklands. [4]On 15 July 1840 Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler, then governor of South Australia, laid the foundation stone for the Adelaide Hospital, which is regarded as the hospital's foundation day, although the first patients were only admitted in January or February of the following year.
Kenmore Asylum, also known as Kenmore Hospital or Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital is a heritage-listed decommissioned psychiatric hospital located in Goulburn, a town in New South Wales, Australia. Construction began in 1894 and opened in 1895, capable of housing 700 patients.