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St. Barnabas' Hospital (Osaka)

Coordinates: 34°39′47″N 135°31′28″E / 34.66306°N 135.52444°E / 34.66306; 135.52444
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St. Barnabas' Hospital
Map
Geography
LocationTennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan
Coordinates34°39′47″N 135°31′28″E / 34.66306°N 135.52444°E / 34.66306; 135.52444
Organisation
FundingPrivate
Religious affiliationAnglican Church in Japan
Services
Beds73
History
Opened1873
Links
Websitewww.barnaba.or.jp

St. Barnabas' Hospital (聖バルナバ病院, Sei Barunaba byōin) is a hospital founded in 1873 that is located in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the oldest hospital of the Anglican Church in Japan.

Characteristics

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The nearest station is Ōsaka Uehommachi Station. The hospital has long been committed to maternal health care and delivers more than 1,000 births a year.

History

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1873

1874

  • Jan. - US Japan Missionary Clinic was opened at Umehommachi 7, Nishi-ku, Osaka.[3]
  • Dr. Laning treated more than a thousand patients for free in the half year after this clinic was opened. He also sold and lent many Christian books in Japanese, in Chinese, and in English.[1]

1877

  • Apr. - He established another clinic in the central Osaka, and the first clinic in Umehommachi became a branch.[1][3]

1878

  • He treated about 2.5 thousand patients at those clinics, and the bishop Channing Moore Williams reported his contribution to the headquarter in the United States.[1]

1880

  • Laning's medical works successfully developed, and doctors of the clinics argued to build a hospital in Osaka. They asked the US headquarter to send money for the hospital, and female working groups in New York promised to send money for the project.[1]

1883

  • Sep. - A new two-story hospital made by wood was completed at Kawaguchi-cho 8, and Dr. Laning became a president of the hospital. He officially named the hospital "St. Barnabas' hospital." A missionary of the US Episcopal Church, Theodosius Stevens Tyng supervised the construction of the hospital.[1]

1884

  • Apr. - Frances J. Shaw living in Osaka was recruited as a chief nurse.[1][3] This position was assigned to foreign women after several years.[1]

1885

  • Jun. - Shaw resigned the hospital. The number of personnels from the mission decreased, but staff staying the hospital kept their effort and the hospital was successfully developed.[1]
  • 920 patients visited the hospital for 4,869 times, and 74 patients stayed at the hospital this year.[1]

1887

1888

  • The number of visiting patients increased to 8,224, and 88 patients stayed at the hospital this year.[1]

1913

  • Dr. Laning who had worked in Japan for almost 40 years returned to the United States because he got old, and his son became the second president of the hospital.

1923

  • The hospital moved to Saikudani, Tennōji.

1928

1941

  • Shōzō Nisizaki became the seventh president of the hospital as the first Japanese president.

1942

  • An affiliated midwife school, "Jōnan Midwife School" was established.

1943

  • The hospital's name changed to "Osaka Daitōa Hospital" because of the war.

1945

  • The name returned to "St. Barnabas' Hospital," and the affiliated school renamed "St. Barnabas' Hospital Midwife School."

2005

  • The new hospital building was completed.

Medical Department

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  • Obstetrics
  • Gynecology
  • Pediatrics

Access

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Project Canterbury (1891). "An Historical Sketch of the Japan Missionof the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. Third Edition". New York: The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
  2. ^ "当院について". 公益財団法人聖バルナバ病院. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  3. ^ a b c d 藤本大士 (2020-04-22). "明治初期大阪におけるアメリカ人医療宣教師と医学教育". 科学史研究. 58 (292). 日本科学史学会: 318–333. doi:10.34336/jhsj.58.292_318. ISSN 2435-0524.
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