Convict hospitals

Summary

A series of tents was erected on the west side of Sydney Cove near the present Maritime Services Building to serve as a makeshift hospital. This was soon replaced by a timber building with dirt floors. So the General Hospital was established, to be replaced in 1790 by a wooden prefabricated hospital which was transported to the Colony in the Transport Lady Juliana.

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Date of Publication: 31 December 2003
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