The operating room, Strathmore Hospital, Ferry Road, Christchurch
The operating room, Strathmore Hospital, Ferry Road, Christchurch
[1895]
This hospital of thirty rooms was designed by S. Hurst Seager (1854-1933) and built in the early 1890s for Dr Joseph Henry Townend (1848-1902) by Mrs J. Cochrane-Brown. Mainly for surgical cases and accommodating forty patients, it was a pioneer in aseptic surgery, having a glass-lined operating theatre. It remained a private hospital until 1918 when it became a Girls' Receiving Home run by the Education Department. It ceased this role about 1980 and was demolished in the late 1990s. See The Press, 29 Oct. 1895, p. 3.
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