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1886
The Laundry Block
On the verandah of each ward there was a
chute leading to a wire cage. Nurses would put
soiled linen in the chute and a laundress would
collect it. It was quite a trek to the laundry
block which stood on the far-south eastern
corner of the site. The hospital had been built
on land owned by the University of Sydney and
in 1886 it was still surrounded by paddocks. In
this picture the laundresses are standing near
clothes lines while around them are sheets
spread on the grass to dry.
Image from the Knox family papers, State Library of NSW
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