[SYDNEY] The Lady Mayoress of Sydney (Mrs W. H. Lambert) requests the pleasure of Mrs A. Weston’s Company at A Gift Afternoon in her Rooms at the Town Hall on Thursday the 2nd June …

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from 3.30 pm to 5 pm. Gifts of linen or money will be thankfully received for the assistance of the St. Joseph s Hospital, Auburn. Sydney, NSW : Mrs. W. H. Lambert, Lady Mayoress, [1921]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; mild toning; verso blank. The story of St Joseph’s Hospital and services to the people of western Sydney began with the Sisters of Charity, who in 1838 head to Parramatta Female Factory to minister to female convicts. The Sisters purchased a residence on where they remained until the closure of the Female Factory in 1848. It is in this residence that St Joseph’s Hospital began its history in 1886, as a 20 bed unit specialising exclusively in the treatment of pulmonary conditions, claiming to be the only hospital in Australia devoted to the treatment of consumption. In 1889 the hospital built a new wing, increasing the bed base to 50, but by 1892 and owing to growing community need, the Sister’s found themselves turning patients away due to lack of beds. As a result, the Sisters engineered the sale of the Parramatta site to the Sisters of Mercy for £1,700, in favour of a new property in Auburn, knowns as Duncraggan Hall a very large estate with 13 acres of land. When the Parramatta site closed, patients at St Joseph’s were transferred to St Vincent’s until the new Auburn site was ready, and St Joseph’s Sanatorium and Hospice at Auburn was officially opened on September 7, 1892 by the then Governor of NSW, i

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