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The Coast Hospital, Little Bay was established by the Board of Health in 1881. The Board of Health, the forerunner to the Department of Health was initially created to respond to the small-pox outbreak of 1881. In establishing the Coast Hospital as an isolation hospital and sanatorium the Board established the first government controlled hospital in New South Wales in the post-convict era. The subsequent administrative experience gained in administering this facility, empowered the Board of Health and the New South Wales Government in their negotiations with various charitable hospital boards into the twentieth century. The current system of hospital administration has evolved from the Board of Health's initial foray into the provision of hospital facilities at the Coast.
The location at Little Bay chosen for the hospital site and the buildings subsequently constructed reflected prevailing attitudes to health care. Fear of infectious diseases dictated that patients and contacts be geographically isolated from the general population. The initial isolation of the Coast Hospital led to the establishment of the first complete ambulance service in the Colony at the Coast and was the forerunner of services established throughout the country from the 1890's. The Coast Hospital became a centre for the treatment of infectious diseases. Nursing staff who had been trained at the Coast were highly valued because of their ability to distinguish between different types of rashes and their expertise in treating infectious cases. This was critical when cross infection could be a death sentence. Fresh ocean air was considered to be highly beneficial to the ill, consequently the hospital section was located on the southern headland of Little Bay where maximum exposure to the elements was assured. The influence of Florence Nightingale's views on hospital design were reflected in the pavilion design and the concern for adequate ventilation in the structures. The gradual reduction in isolation of the Coast Hospital, as Sydney expanded and transport facilities improved, resulted in a corresponding growth in demand for the services and expertise offered by the Coast. By 1929 it was the largest hospital in the state.
As the site at Little Bay has been in almost continual use as an infectious diseases hospital for 108 years, its medical, social and construction history provide valuable evidence of community attitudes to infectious disease and more generalised hospital care from the 1880's.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists: 'Trainor Owen Archive' Significance Assessment
Authors: Dr Sue Rosen, Christine Yeats & Liz Gorman Client: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. Sue Rosen Associates were commissioned by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College…
31 Waruda Place, Huntleys Cove - Heritage Impact Statement
Authors: Dr Sue Rosen and Liz Gorman Client: Private Client We were pleased to compile this HIS to facilitate the client's development proposal for a simple pavilion addition, connected via…
Site Development of Inverell Hospital
Authors: Liz Gorman and Dr Sue Rosen Client: Conrad Gargett for NSW Health There are serveral distinct phases of building activity observable on the site of Inverell Hospital; starting with the original…
Uralla Shire Council - Community Based Heritage Study and Context Report.
Author: Dr Sue Rosen Client: Uralla Shire Council Uralla Community Based Heritage Study: This Community Based approach enabled extensive meetings, discussions, workshops and collection of…
Interview with Eddy Fryar, Chief Engineer at Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital, Northern Sydney Area Health Service.
Interviewer/Historian: Dr Sue Rosen Client: NSW Department of Health The interview focussed on Eddy's vast knowledge of the hospital over his lengthy working life there, not only in…
Heritage Impact Statement - 12 Dening Street, The Entrance
Author: Emma Dortins Client: Albert Pichler, Architect The objective of this Heritage Impact Statement is to assess the impact of additions and alterations to the former Ambulance Station at No. 12…
The Woods Great Peppermint Cure: Archival Assessment and Collation.
Author: Emma Dortins Client: Albert Pichler, Architect The objective of this Heritage Impact Statement is to assess the impact of additions and alterations to the former Ambulance Station at No. 12
Mary Sparke, "Sydney Home Nursing Service, ... Going the extra mile..., A pictorial history of the Sydney Home Nursing Service, 1900-2000". Northern Sydney Area Health Service, 2000.
Author: Mary Sparke The work of Sydney Home Nursing Service has become an important component of Community Health Care Services in twenty-first century Sydney. This, in itself, provides a…
Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital Operating Block Archival Recording.
Authors: David Sheedy and Sue Rosen Client: NSW Department of Public Works and Services Archival recording was required as the operating block was to be demolished and rebuilt to upgrade the…
Statement of Heritage Impact: ANZAC Memorial Hospital, Katoomba.
Authors: David Sheedy Architect and Sue Rosen, Historian Client: The Wentworth Area Health Service This Heritage Impact Statement relates to the proposed new Accident-Emergency Unit and Operating Theatres proposed for the…
Historic Context Report for Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital Concord Conservation Management Plan.
Author: Rosemary Kerr and Sue Rosen Client: Otto Cserhalmi & Partners P/L Historic Context Report for Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital Concord Conservation Management Plan During the 1880s and 1890s the…
Historic Context Report for Conservation Plan, The Riverside Precinct, Cumberland Hospital, Parramatta
Authors: Dr Sue Rosen and Dr Rosemary Kerr Client: Peter McKenzie of Jackson Teece This report was commissioned to inform the preparation of a Conservation Management Plan for the Riverside precinct…
‘Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital: Treatment and Facilities in the Nineteenth Century’, Heritage Week Address, Hunters Hill Historical Society - Ryde Council, 1995.
Authors: Dr Sue Rosen and Dr Rosemary Kerr Client: Peter McKenzie of Jackson Teece This report was commissioned to inform the preparation of a Conservation Management Plan for the Riverside precinct
Historic Context Report for Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital, Southern Campus Conservation Plan.
Authors: Beverley Johnson and Sue Rosen Client: Hughes Truman & Ludlow for Northern Area Health Service This history report consists of a thematic history and a chronology, which details the…
Conservation Plan: Silverwater and Mulawa Correctional Centres
Client: Planning Workshop Authors: Phillip Cox Richardson Taylor and Partners Pty Ltd, Sue Rosen Pty Ltd Historian and Heritage Consultants, Context Landscape Design The report was commissioned in November 1992 by…
Rosen, Sue., A History Of Garrawarra Hospital, Garrawarra Hospital, Waterfall, Garrawarra Centre for Aged Care, 1993.
Author: Dr Sue Rosen Garrawarra Hospital was established as a centre for the aged and chronically ill in 1958. Formerly Garrawarra served as a tuberculosis treatment facility and was known as…
The treatment of tuberculosis in NSW with reference to the philosophy of care and related architectural and landscape features associated with that care.
Author: Dr Sue Rosen Garrawarra Hospital was established as a centre for the aged and chronically ill in 1958. Formerly Garrawarra served as a tuberculosis treatment facility and was known as
Newspaper search re: nurses, nursing and health, from the mid 1920s but primarily focused on the period from 1975 through to 1991.
Author: Dr Sue Rosen Garrawarra Hospital was established as a centre for the aged and chronically ill in 1958. Formerly Garrawarra served as a tuberculosis treatment facility and was known as
Conservation Plan for The Cottage Hospital, Wallerawang.
Author: Dr Sue Rosen Garrawarra Hospital was established as a centre for the aged and chronically ill in 1958. Formerly Garrawarra served as a tuberculosis treatment facility and was known as
Conservation Management Plan: The Ambulance Station, 73 George St, The Rocks.
Authors: David Sheedy and Sue Rosen Conservation Plan for the site of the Ambulance Station. 73 George Street, The Rocks. The Sydney Cove Authority commissioned David Sheedy Pty Ltd to…
Historic Context Report for Conservation Management Plan for The Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay.
The Coast Hospital, Little Bay was established by the Board of Health in 1881. The Board of Health, the forerunner to the Department of Health was initially created to respond…
Historic Context Report for State Abattoirs, Homebush Archival Recording Project.
The Coast Hospital, Little Bay was established by the Board of Health in 1881. The Board of Health, the forerunner to the Department of Health was initially created to respond
State Abattoirs Homebush Conservation Plan Historic Context Report.
Client: Don Godden and Associates for Department of Public Works Authors: Sue Rosen and Annette Green This report was prepared to inform the heritage assessment of the State Abattoir and…