Healthy Matters 1 Traditional Cache

A Journey of The Maitland Hospital

In The Beginning............

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!!!!!! Please note the cache is not on the grounds of the homestead/old hospital due to gps disturbance in the area it might send you there, try on the opposite side of the road or try google earth for better accuracy !!!!!!

Residents in Maitland petitioned the Governor for a hospital and gaol in 1835 when the population of the town reached 1900, however the Immigrant's Home founded by Caroline Chisholm in East Maitland was the first public building used to care for the sick in Maitland. This site became known as the Maitland Benevolent Asylum. The Maitland Benevolent Asylum was opened by the Maitland Benevolent Society for the reception of patients on 1 January 1843, The Asylum was funded by subscription and run by a sub-committee. Its objects were 'to afford an asylum to the sick and destitute, and to disperse medicine gratis to the poor'. The first sub-committee comprised Rev. G.K. Rusden, Rev. E. Mahony, Rev. W. Clarke, Dr. A. Liddle and Dr. P.W. Mallon. Free services were provided to the institution by the medical gentlemen of the district, Dr Liddle and Dr Mallon..

Caroline's work/life was recognized on the older Australian $5 dollar note

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