[3] In 1921, Lucy Gullett worked with Harriet Biffen to create what became the Rachel Forster Hospital.

[4] In 1927, Elsie Dalyell and Marie Montgomerie Hamilton started a clinic for venereal diseases at the hospital.

[12] In 2013, City of Sydney councillor Irene Doutney raised strong concerns about the proposed redevelopment of the site, suggesting that most of the hospital would be demolished apart from the eastern facade and the colonnades at the front entrance, with much of the site being replaced with apartments.

She suggested that the hospital had been left to "demolition by neglect", and that in the new development "They’re going to keep the minimum amount of heritage possible then bang a new building down.

"[13] In December 2014, The Daily Telegraph ran a photo piece documenting the deteriorating and vandalised state of the hospital despite its former significance, and referring to Doutney's 2013 concerns about the site falling victim to "demolition by neglect.