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Section of Public Health and Kindred Sciences. Sir Thomas 

 took much interest in the Society and was ever ready to 

 advance its interests. 



The organization of medical education in New South 

 Wales was the chief aim of his life in Australia. He built 

 up the Medical School of the University and he developed 

 the clinical resources of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. 

 Medical training commenced in 1883 with four students in 

 a cottage. In 1887 he supervised the preparation of the 

 plans of the Old Medical School, a magnificent building of 

 Gothic design, which cost more than £80,000. Despite 

 ridicule and criticism this edifice was completed in 1889. 

 Before twenty years had elapsed, it had to be enlarged. 

 Despite the addition of two massive wings the building 

 was found too small for the thousand medical students who 

 attended it in the year of his death. Thomas Anderson 

 Stuart recognised clearly the growth of New South Wales, 

 a development which has not ceased though many cry to- 

 day that there is no need to extend the over crowded 

 Medical School. At first he had charge of the instruction 

 in anatomy and physiology. In 1889 the department of 

 anatomy was placed under a separate teacher, and in 1918 

 the department of pharmacology was formed. From 1903 

 pharmacology had been taught under his general direction. 

 In 1883 he joined the Board of Directors of the Royal 

 Prince Alfred Hospital. In 1890 he became Honorary 

 Secretary and in the same year Chairman of the Board of 

 Directors, a position he retained until his death. He worked 

 with ceaseless energy to make the hospital a pattern of 

 what such an institution should be. His warm support led 

 to the erection of the Queen Victoria Memorial Pavilions. 



The improvement of the public health was another field 

 to which he devoted much attention. From 1892 to 1896 

 he was President of the Board of Health, and remained a 

 member until his death. He took an active share in 

 inaugurating the School of Tropical Medicine in Townsville. 



