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History

St George's Hospital is an Incorporated Society with charitable trust status established by the people of Canterbury. The Hospital had been one of the early decisions of the Canterbury Association in Great Britain, that in the formation of the Canterbury settlement in New Zealand there should be established a cathedral, a university college, a school for the secondary education of boys, a church hopsital and later a medical school.

The early Canterbury settlers vision resulted in the development of Christ's College in 1851, the Christchurch Hospital 1862, University of Canterbury in 1874 and the Medical School in 1972.

In the early 1920s that band of enthusiasts, led and inspired by Canon J R Wilford, then Principal of College House, set the wheels in motion, stimulated interest, collected money and established an organisation to put the project into effect.

The Hospital was built as a result of cooperation between the Church of England and a group of interested Cantabrians and opened its doors in 1928. The Hospital is registered to care for surgical, medical and maternity patients mostly from the private sector. It also contracts to provide a range of surgical and obstetric services to public patients funded by Government.

The Hospital does not have shareholders. Any financial surplus is re-invested in the Hospital or used to carry out the Hospital's charitable objectives. Today, the Hospital is one of the largest private hospitals in New Zealand and is one of the most modern in terms of its equipment and technology.


Canon J. R. Wilford and Rev Mother Alice	The twenty-fifth anniversary of St George's, 1953. The staff outside St Mary's Church, Merivale	H.E. Marshall of the Royal Air Force Sir Cyril Newall speaking prior to laying the foundation stone of the Nurses' Home in 1941.

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