[SYDNEY] Lady de Chair requests the pleasure of the company of Mrs A. Weston at a Meeting at Government House, on 11th March at 11 am, to form a Committee to organise a Ball at “The Wentworth,” for the Babies in the Women’s Hospital, Crown Street.

R.S.V.P. to the A.D.C. in waiting, Government House. Sydney, NSW : Government House, [1924]. Invitation card, 160 x 100 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; old water staining (no loss of text); verso blank.

‘Crown Street Women’s Hospital was established in Hay Street in 1893 and moved to Surry Hills in 1897. It was a public women’s and maternity hospital. As well as being a general hospital, it cared for many unmarried mothers, including state wards and Aboriginal wards, and its staff arranged a high proportion of New South Wales adoptions. The Crown Street Women’s Hospital was closed in 1983 and its facilities were transferred to hospitals in the outer suburbs of Sydney.’ (https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/crown-street-womens-hospital-2/)