THE HISTORY OF THE COAST/PRINCE HENRY HOSPITAL

Florence_Nightingale
Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
1881 Smallpox Outbreak prompts establishment of isolation hospital
Infographic - Smallpox
SMALLPOX
Matron: Mrs Mary Meyler 1881-1885
1882 Joseph Beattie appointed Medical Superintendent
1883 Coast Hospital formerly established
1884 The Coast Hospital expands
Matron: Miss M.D. Farquharson 1885-1886
Matron: Miss Isabella Dickson 1886-1888
Matron Helen McKay
Matron: Mrs Helen McKay 1888-1891
Infographic - Leprosy
LEPROSY
The Lazaret in 1900
1890 Plans to relocate Leprosy patients developed
Matron: Miss Jean McMaster 1891-1905
1890s Zoeller & Ross Operating Table
1894 Nursing school and surgical division established
1896 The first five nurses graduate from Coast Hospital Training School
THE PLAGUE
1900 An outbreak of Bubonic Plague ravages Sydney
Group portrait of brothers of the Red Cross in front of a tent
Male Nurses
1901 Commonwealth of Australia declared
1901 First Steam Tram from the City to Little Bay
1902 The Plague returns
Matron: Miss Alice Watson 1905-1926
1908 Nursing course extended to 4 years
1912 Electric lights installed
1913 The Flowers Hospital
1914 WWI Breaks out
1917 Additional military wards constructed.
Sister Sarah Margaret Furnifull 1887-1984
1918 Sister Edith Blake 1885-1918
Infographic - Inflenza
INFLUENZA
1918-1920 The Influenza Pandemic
Infographic - Childhood Diseases
CHILDHOOD DISEASES
1920 The Coast Hospital develops apace
1922 The Golf Course
Infographic - Measles
MEASLES
Matron: Miss Caroline M Burne 1926-1936
1927 Coast Hospital experiences serious overcrowding
Infographic - Mumps
MUMPS
1930 The Depression creates demand for nursing training
1933 Medical Superintendent Dr Reginald Millard retires
1934 The Coast Hospital renamed Prince Henry Hospital
1935 The new Nurses Home opens
Matron: Miss Clarice M Dickson 1936-1937
Olive Freeman Pratt 1916-2009
1936 Prince Henry Hospital Act is passed by NSW Parliament
1937 A Preliminary Training School for Nurses is established
Matron: Miss Ethel McNevin 1937-1955
1937 Demolition of old buldings begins
Infographic - Polio
POLIO
1938 Post Graduate Medical School opened by Lord Wakefield
1939 War with Germany Declared
1939 Outbreak of WWII
1941 The commercial development of Penicillin
1942 War time restricts hospital activities
1946 Police Ward established
1948 Old wards demolished
1950 Polio Outbreak
1951 First virus diagnostic laboratory established.
Matron: Miss Hope Croll 1955-1966
Infographic - Hepatitis
HEPATITIS
1960 Prince Henry Hospital becomes a teaching hospital
1961 Gabrielle Hannemann - A True Survivor
1962 Nurses Education Centre and Respitory Unit opens
1963 PHH and POWH Randwick united under one administrative board.
1964 First undergraduate medical students are admitted.
Infographic - Gastro
GASTROENTERITIS
Anne Thompson: Nursing during the 60’s
1965 first kidney transplant in NSW
Matron: Miss Vera Adderley 1966-1968
1967 The Coast Chapel opens
Matron: Miss Mary J O'Rourke 1968-1969
1969 Christo & Jean Claude wrap Little Bay
Matron: Miss Jean McKinnon 1969-1971
1971 Hyperbaric Unit Opens
1971 Nurses Training Certificate drops from 4 to 3 years
Matron: Miss Marie C Kilkeary 1971-1972
Mrs Phyllis Newnham
Matron: Mrs Phyllis M Newnham 1973-1979
Matron: Mrs Joan Englert 1979-1992
Infographic - HIV
HIV AIDS
1987 Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Lithotriptor Centre and AIDS unit opens
POW_HYPERBARIC 1995
1995 Hyperbaric Unit transfers to POW
1988 NSW Government announces closure of Prince Henry Hospital
Matron: Mrs Jennifer O'Connell 1995-2003
1998 Medical facilities transferred to POW Randwick
1991 PHHTNA establishes archival collection
Matron: Miss Beryl Simons 1992-1995
2000 Landcom appointed to create masterplan for Prince Henry precinct
2003 Last wards close; Museum opens
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