Little Bay Hospital and Cemetery NSW

[margill68]

I have found a Death registration 6188/1885 for a Catherine ANLEZARK age 20 years died Little Bay reg'd Waterloo.
I think this is Catherine's Birth 8293/1866 father John and mother Catherine reg'd Goulburn.  The age is right.
I have looked online and Little Bay was an infectious diseases hospital at the time.  The only cemetery records seem to be for those with memorials.
From an earlier Rootschat post there is a book which may have those buried at the hospital cemetery.
Any help would be very much appreciated

[majm]

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=455563.0

Seeking help with information from a book -

Deaths at the Coast Hospital and Burials at Little Bay: 1881 - 1952
Edited by Joseph Waugh.

.... available at NLA and other locations .....

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2988097 

NSW BDM online index,  drill down on the entry for your lass, and her date of death is 20 August 1885.

JM

[margill68]

Thank you JM
Unfortunately I am not near any of the libraries mentioned.  If there is anyone who is near one could have a look for me I would appreciate it.  If not I may have to get her DC which should have where she is buried.

[majm]

Have you asked the National Library to look it up for you?   
https://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian 

 

ADD, many libraries are currently closed to the public, but are still functioning behind the closed doors while the CoViD-19 regulations are in place.   

JM

[margill68]

Thanks again
I will ask a librarian at the NLA.  My local library is open from tomorrow

[margill68]

Death Certificate for Catherine Anlezark 1885
Reg No 6118
Date of Death  20 Aug 1885
Place   Coast Hospital Little Bay
Name  Catherine Anlezark
Occupation  In Private Life
Sex  Female
Age  20
Cause of Death  Enteric Fever
Duration  13 Days
Medical Attendant Dr Smith 20 Aug 1885
Father  Parents Not Listed Occ Unknown
Informant  B W Heyelm, Dispenser, Coast Hospital, Little Bay Registered 25 Aug 1885
When Buried  22 August 1885
Where Little Bay Cemetery
Undertaker  John Costelloe
Minister  Not Listed
Religion  -
Witnesses J Costelloe, G W Bradley
Where Born  Ireland
Time in Colony  Unknown
Place Married  -
Age Married  -
Spouse  -
Children -
Comments
( I think born Ireland refers to her mother Catherine

A little Hospital History
Hospital Treatment of Typhoid Col 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239817735
Hospital

[Lady Di]

…  1885 ...
I have looked online and Little Bay was an infectious diseases hospital at the time.  The only cemetery records seem to be for those with memorials.

The Coast Hospital was converted to a convalescent hospital for patients from the metropolitan hospitals in Sydney in 1883. It was another 5 years (1888) before it became a “fever hospital”, treating diseases such as diphtheria, tb, small pox, measles and scarlet fever.

In 1890 Water and sewerage services were installed …

Imagine building a hospital without toilets!!

[majm]

They had night soil men .... and in rural/regional NSW many district hospitals were not sewered until the 1960s....   

JM

[Andcarred]

Just as a bit of information which may help other people, not all patients who died at the Coast Hospital were buried there.   Many bodies were transported to family cemeteries for burial.  My grandfather died at Little Bay but was buried at Field of Mars Cemetery at Ryde because that was where the family lived.

Also when I lived in Sydney in the 1950s we did not have sewerage, it came to Sans Souci about 1960 and then to Gymea Bay about 1968.  I now live in Queensland and parts of Brisbane were still unsewered in the 1970s.