St. Barnabas' Hospital
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. The hospital is located in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the oldest hospital of the Anglican Church in Japan.

Characteristics

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

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

  • Obstetrics
  • Gynecology
  • Pediatrics

Access

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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. 1 2 3 4 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. 日本科学史学会. 58 (292): 318–333. ISSN 2435-0524.
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