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1886
The Kitchen
1883
Photographs of an
etching collection given
to the RPA Museum.
The hospital had a separate kitchen block and food was
delivered to the wards along a covered walkway. The block
contained a spacious kitchen, sculleries, a storeroom, a
larder and a servant’s dining hall. Cooks and kitchen servants
worked with the most modern apparatus. There were
jacketed steam boilers and vegetable steamers, a large, gas
roasting oven and an even larger double-ovened ‘kitchener’,
that is, an elaborate fuel stove. Like the rest of the hospital
the kitchen had running hot water, heated by steam from a
huge boiler in the centre of the site.
Image from the Knox family papers, State Library of NSW
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