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On 15 November 1957 notification of land at North Ryde as a hospital for the insane, to be known as The Psychiatric Centre, North Ryde, was published. (1) This was revoked by a notification published on 6 November 1959, establishing the land at North Ryde as a mental hospital. (2)
The Hospital commenced functioning in 1959.(3) In addition to providing psychiatric services under the provisions of the Mental Health Act, 1958 (Act No 45, 1958), the hospital contained several specialty units, including a Thoracic Unit, dedicated to the control of tuberculosis in all State Mental Hospitals, a Neuropathology Department, a Surgical Unit opened in September 1961, and a Children's Unit. In November 1961 an Admission centre was opened, which replaced the Admission Centre at Darlinghurst.(4)
By 1 May 1981 North Ryde Psychiatric Centre was known as the Macquarie Hospital, North Ryde, with wards gazetted as a Mental Hospital. (5)
On 29 January 1993 premises at Gladesville Hospital and Macquarie Hospital were revoked as hospitals, and were amalgamated to form the Gladesville Macquarie Hospital.(6) All inpatient services had been consolidated onto the Macquarie site at North Ryde by June 1997. (7)
Endnotes:
1.NSW Government Gazette 1957, 15 November 1957, p. 3612.
2.NSW Government Gazette 1959, 6 November 1959, p. 3387.
3.Director of State Psychiatric Services, report for the year ended 30 June 1962, in Parliamentary Papers 1962-63-64, Second Session, Vol 4, p. 563.
4.Ibid, p. 563-64.
5.NSW Government Gazette 1981, 1 May 1981, p.2437.
6.NSW Government Gazette 1993, 29 January 1993, p.308.
7.Report of the Northern Sydney Area Health Service for the year ended 30. June 1997, p.16.
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