G. Vincent Rudd was the first full time research scientist employed at Royal North Shore Hospital from 1925-1934. He had previously worked at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories which had been set up in 1916 to service the nation isolated in the First World War, and so was already well qualified. During his time at the hospital he received a Doctor of Science for his research work on gastric secretions. He resigned in 1934 to start a medical degree at the University of Melbourne. He served in the AIF from 1940-46 and returned to Royal North Shore Hospital in 1954 as a consultant haematologist.
In addition to research activity, the staff of the Institute of Medical Research were also responsible for all of the routine pathology tests for the hospital.
By the mid-1940s and following the Second World War, there was an expanding demand for the services of the pathology department as well as the growing research activity which followed the arrival of Max Lemberg. In 1941 Eva Kolling died leaving a very generous legacy which allowed the addition of a third storey to the existing building. In 1948 Royal North Shore Hospital became a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. Initially, students were housed around the hospital campus but from the 1960s a clinical block was built adjacent to and integrated with the Kolling. This shows the Kolling before the addition of the clinical block. These were demolished in Royal North Shore Hospital’s building program in the newmillenniumwhich saw the construction not only of a new Kolling building but also an acute services block.
Images and historical content: Archive and Heritage Collection, Royal North Shore Hospital, with kind permission
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