Services in health care in Sydney can be availed from the hospitals in Sydney. Among the hospitals in Sydney, the name of St Margaret's Hospital, Sydney is well known. The hospital was founded in 1893. Gertrude Abbott is the founder of St Margaret's Hospital, Sydney.
St Margaret's Hospital is a maternity home. It has been set up in the Elizabeth Street. It was established mainly with an aim to care for unmarried girls. It also provided shelter to these girls. Within two years of the establishment of St Margaret's Hospital, it received 30 patients.
For another 40 years, the maternity home was looked
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after by Gertrude Abbott. In the later years, medical assistance for outpatients was also introduced by the hospital. Visits on call to home of patients were also started. From Elizabeth Street, St Margaret's Hospital was shifted to a new location at Bourke Street. The funding of the hospital was mainly raised through lotteries.
Gertrude Abbott moved from the hospital administration after the death of Sister Magdalen Foley. After the death of Abbott in 1934, St Margaret's Hospital, Sydney was maintained by the Sisters of St Joseph. At one point of time, among the maternity hospitals in Sydney, St Margaret's Hospital, Sydney was considered to rank the third largest.
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