Little Bay Coast Hospital Cemetery

The remains of this burial ground date back to as early as 1881. The Coast Hospital, later known as Prince Henry Hospital, started as a quarantine hospital during an outbreak of smallpox in Sydney.

It became an infectious diseases hospital treating leprosy, bubonic plague, influenza, tuberculosis and other infectious conditions.

The cemetery also contains the graves of Chinese and Aboriginal people who either passed away at the Aboriginal reserve at la Perouse or at the hospital. Hospital staff were also buried at the site.

A published index of burials at the Little Bay cemetery 1881-1952 is available in the local studies collection, Bowen Library.

Further historical information about the cemetery and hospital is available at the Prince Henry Nursing and Medical Museum website.

Sources:

Waugh, Joseph. Deaths at the Coast Hospital and Burials at Little Bay 1881-1952 (Randwick, NSW: Randwick and District Historical Society, 1999)
Broughton, C.R. A Coast Chronicle: The History of the Prince Henry Hospital 1881-1981