Health Services

Written by Graham Wilson

Australian Theme- developing local, regional and national economies.

NSW Theme- health.

Local Themes- Public hospital, nurses’ quarters, medical consulting rooms, baby health clinic, landscaped grounds, pharmacy, doctor and dentist’s house and midwives home.  

Australian Theme- marking the phases of life.

NSW Theme- birth and death.

Local Themes- Public and private hospitals, maternity hospitals, baby health clinic, nursing home, funeral parlour, grave furnishings, cemetery, disaster or massacre sites and memorial plantings.

Australian Themes- marking the phases of life.

NSW Theme- persons.

Local Themes- activities of and associations with individuals, families and communal groups.

Monument to an individual or group, family home, private chapel, place of residence, statute, commemorative place name, place dedicated to the memory of a person (eg a hospital wing).

Throughout the development of rural towns, local communities have taken action to attract General Practitioners and later Public Hospitals to their respective communities.  A meeting was held on 6 May 1878 in Bingera ‘for the purpose of obtaining the services of a competent medical man’.  It was agreed to raise ₤300 for any gentleman who was prepared to serve two years in the community.  Despite the optimism, no suitable doctors were found in Sydney.