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Sydney Eye Hospital—The Wider View
Author(s) -
Gillis S.,
DeaneButcher W.,
Donaldson E. J.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
australian journal of opthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 0310-1177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1976.tb00863.x
Subject(s) - optometry , trachoma , metropolitan area , medicine , eye care , ophthalmology , pathology
S ummary T hroughout its history the Sydney Eye Hospital Division of Sydney Hospital has played a significant part in eye care in Australia. For its first forty years its major concern was the treatment of trachoma in New South Wales. In the nineteen twenties the foundations were laid, by far‐sighted directors and ophthalmologists of the time, of the community service that the Hospital carries out today for the whole of metropolitan and outer Sydney. The early nineteen sixties saw the initiation of its supraspecialist function in the Special Ophthalmic Units, which are a feature of the Hospital. At the same time, a Chair of Ophthalmology and Eye Health was established at Sydney Eye Hospital by the University of Sydney. In 1971, rebuilding of the Hospital began on its present site in Woolloomooloo.