Editing Sydney (section)

===Health===
[[File:Sydney Hospital. - panoramio.jpg|alt=|thumb|The [[Sydney Hospital]], completed in 1816]]
The first hospital in the new colony was a collection of tents at [[The Rocks, Sydney|The Rocks]]. Many of the convicts that survived the trip suffered from [[dysentery]], smallpox, [[scurvy]], and [[typhoid]]. Healthcare facilities remained inadequate despite the arrival of a prefabricated hospital with the [[Second Fleet (Australia)|Second Fleet]] and the construction of new hospitals at Parramatta, [[Windsor, New South Wales|Windsor]], and [[Liverpool, New South Wales|Liverpool]] in the 1790s.<ref name="Hospitals">{{cite web |last=Godden |first=Judith |date=2008 |url=http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/hospitals |title=Hospitals |publisher=Dictionary of Sydney |access-date=9 August 2014}}</ref>

Governor Macquarie arranged for the construction of [[Sydney Hospital]], completed in 1816.<ref name="Hospitals"/> Parts of the facility have been repurposed for use as [[Parliament House, Sydney|Parliament House]] but the hospital itself still operates. The city's first emergency department was established at Sydney Hospital in 1870. Demand for emergency medical care increased from 1895 with the introduction of an ambulance service.<ref name="Hospitals"/> The Sydney Hospital also housed Australia's first teaching facility for nurses, the Nightingale Wing, established with the input of [[Florence Nightingale]] in 1868.<ref name="ALadyDisplaced">Judith Godden, ''Lucy Osburn, A Lady Displaced'', Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2006</ref>

Healthcare was recognised as a right in the early 1900s and Sydney's public hospitals came under the oversight of the Government of New South Wales.<ref name="Hospitals"/> The administration of healthcare across Sydney is handled by eight local health districts: Central Coast, Illawarra Shoalhaven, Sydney, Nepean Blue Mountains, Northern Sydney, South Eastern Sydney, South Western Sydney, and Western Sydney.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Government of New South Wales |date=2014 |url=http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/lhd/Pages/default.aspx |title=Local health districts |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> The [[Prince of Wales Hospital (Sydney)|Prince of Wales Hospital]] was established in 1852 and became the first of several major hospitals to be opened.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=South Eastern Sydney Local Health District |date=2014 |url=http://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/POWH/history/powhistory.asp |title=Prince of Wales Hospital |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019082609/http://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/POWH/history/powhistory.asp |archive-date=19 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney|St Vincent's Hospital]] was founded in 1857,<ref name="Darlinghurst"/> followed by [[Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children]] in 1880,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The Children's Hospital at Westmead |date=2014 |url=http://bandagedbear.org.au/about-us/our-history/ |title=Our history |access-date=23 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621081851/http://bandagedbear.org.au/about-us/our-history/ |archive-date=21 June 2014}}</ref> the [[Prince of Wales Hospital (Sydney)|Prince Henry Hospital]] in 1881,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=South Eastern Sydney Local Health District |date=2014 |url=http://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/POWH/history/henryhistory.asp |title=Prince Henry Hospital |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019082311/http://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/POWH/history/henryhistory.asp |archive-date=19 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]] in 1882,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Sydney Local Health District |date=2014 |url=http://www.slhd.nsw.gov.au/rpa/about_us.html |title=Royal Prince Alfred Hospital |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-date=18 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218045210/http://www.slhd.nsw.gov.au/rpa/about_us.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Royal North Shore Hospital]] in 1885,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Northern Sydney Local Health District |date=2014 |url=http://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Hospitals/RNSH/Pages/Aboutus.aspx |title=About us |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> the [[St George Hospital (Sydney)|St George Hospital]] in 1894,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=South Eastern Sydney Local Health District |date=2014 |url=http://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/SGH/about_us.asp |title=About us |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816045336/http://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/SGH/about_us.asp |archive-date=16 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Nepean Hospital]] in 1895.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District |date=2014 |url=http://www.nbmlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Nepean-Hospital/About-Us |title=About Nepean Hospital |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> [[Westmead Hospital]] in 1978 was the last major facility to open.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Western Sydney Local Health District |date=2014 |url=http://www.wslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Westmead-Hospital/About-us/Our-History |title=Our history |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>