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1856: Provincial Hospital – Editors Pic

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1856: Provincial Hospital

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Between November 1855 and January 1857 much debate took place over the siting of the first Provincial Hospital in Port Elizabeth.

A temporary site for the Provincial Hospital was found in Rodney Street after a tender was called for looking for a building ‘containing not less than 6 rooms and a kitchen’. The house above, in ‘Rodney Street, just off Main Street and opposite the sand hills’, was secured at a rental of forty-eight pounds per annum.

This temporary hospital was opened on 10 September 1856 and a seaman from the brig Allies was the first patient admitted under the care of Drs Dunsterville and Rubidge.

This image is randomly selected from an ever growing repository of publicly available images taken in and around Port Elizabeth.

Many more Port Elizabeth images here.

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