Dee Street Hospital (southland) Traditional Cache
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Dee Street Hospital (southland)
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The cache is placed at the former Dee Street Hospital which used to be on these ground until they built kew hospital
Dee Street Hospital, the site of New Zealand's oldest hospital buildings, is a place of national importance. The remaining buildings - the South Wing and Central Block and Porter's Lodge - are the only collection of 19th century hospital buildings in the country. A Hospital Reserve was established alongside Dee Street in 1862 and work on the first of the hospital buildings, what later became known as the North Wing, followed later that year. It was opened in 1863 and housed the hospital's wards. In 1866, the Porter's Lodge was built, partly to house someone to look after the main gates at the south-eastern corner of the Reserve. This building still stands, the oldest on the site, and reputedly the oldest house in Invercargill. In 1874, a small addition was made to the North Wing, and two years later a new building was constructed, later known as the Central Block, to a design by architect F.W. Burwell. It was an altogether more decorative building and was linked to the North Wing via a corridor. It was used as a dispensary and for a women's ward, among other things. Three years later, in 1879, Burwell designed the South Wing as accommodation for the house surgeon. Again linked to the Central Block by a corridor, it mimicked the plainer style of the North Wing, thereby completing a (largely) symmetrical trio of buildings. The hospital continued to grow to the rear (or western side) but the next major addition led to the demolition of the North Wing. The new Queen Victoria Wing was promoted as recognition of the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria. Completed in 1898, it transformed the east and north elevations of the hospital. There were more major additions in 1902 and 1909-10, by which time the hospital was overcrowded and with little prospect of being able to expand on the available land. In 1918, the decision was made to build a new hospital at Kew, where a fever ward had been built in 1907.
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