Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1881-1985 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
21 boxes, 11 volumes, 2 photographs
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Wagga Wagga District Hospital opened on 1 July 1856 and was situated in a slab cottage on the sandhill in Kincaid Street. In 1859, land was granted to the Hospital Committee to erect a new building on the corner of Tarcutta and Johnston Streets. By 1900, the hospital had outgrown this land and looked to rebuild on the edge of the township. In 1910 the hospital opened on its new site at the corner of Edward Street and Albury Road (later, Docker Street). In 1938 the name of the hospital changed to the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
In 2016 it was briefly named the Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital before once again becoming the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital in February 2018.
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Midwifery registers, registers of surgical operations, report books, recovery dangerous drug book, registers of admissions and discharges, daily record of numbers book and photographs.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Patient identifying health records are RESTRICTED for 110 years (Access Direction No. 7).
All other records are OPEN to public access.
A Reader’s Ticket issued by the State Archives and Records Authority of NSW is required to access original state archives and can be issued immediately upon production of identification. More information
Conditions governing reproduction
The reproducing and publishing of state archives is governed by the State Archives and Records Authority of NSW. More information
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
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