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Nurse

Occupation - Nurse
Bellear, Kaye
Clague, Joyce
Cobby, Anita
Cobcroft, Sarah
Durant, Carmel
Erlanger, Marianne
Flower, Dulcie
Ghost, Bathsheba
Gould, Ellen Julia (Nellie)
Hambling, Rosemary
Hammond, Audrey
Kaye, Ruth Emilie
King, Agnes
King, Mary Truby
Livingston, Mary
McGahey, Susan Bell
McLean, Vida
McMaster, Jean
McMillan, Elizabeth
Mitchell, Sarah
Vidler, Ivy
Warneke, Bertha
Wilson, Eileen
Wrobel, Elinor
Position - Nurse of Callan Park Mental Hospital
Armfield, Lillian May
1907 - 1915
Position - Nurse of Crown Street Women's Hospital
Hambling, Rosemary
Position - Nurse of Karitane
Vidler, Ivy
1930 - 1931
Position - Nurse of Parramatta Industrial School for Females
Kaye, Ruth Emilie
1898 - 1909
Position - Nurse of Prince Henry Hospital
Kaye, Ruth Emilie
1894 - 1898
McMaster, Jean
1891 - 1905
Position - Nurse of Rachel Forster Hospital
Bellear, Kaye
Livingston, Mary
1925
Position - Nurse of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Gould, Ellen Julia (Nellie)
1887 - 1889
McGahey, Susan Bell
1891 - 1904
Position - Nurse of Sydney Hospital
Osburn, Lucy
1868 - 1884
Wrobel, Elinor
Position - Nurse of Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary
Ghost, Bathsheba
1844 - 1866

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Nurse

Bellear, Kaye

Activist who fought to obtain housing for poor Aboriginal people in Redfern in the early 1970s.

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Clague, Joyce

Early activist for Aboriginal rights.

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Cobby, Anita

Nurse who was raped and murdered in 1986.

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Cobcroft, Sarah

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Midwife and farmer who emigrated from England to Sydney as one of Australia's first free settlers after her spouse had been sentenced to transportation for assault and highway robbery. She was part of a small group of women who accepted a government offer of a free passage. The couple had 10 children and married in 1842 when Sarah was aged 70. She worked as a midwife in the Wilberforce district. Her death notice notes she left 'a large family to lament their loss, having lived to see the fifth generation'.

Durant, Carmel

Child who was removed from her family at age 11 due to poverty and designated a state ward. For seven years she endured a harsh life in and out of state institutions.

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Erlanger, Marianne

Nursing director in the expanded Karitane child care service.

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Flower, Dulcie

Aboriginal health worker and activist who was instrumental in establishing the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service where she worked for many years.

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Ghost, Bathsheba

Matron of Sydney Infirmary from 1852 to 1866.

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Gould, Ellen Julia (Nellie)

Nurse who greatly influenced professional nursing in Australia and who worked as matron and superintendent in many hospitals in Sydney before travelling to the Boer War, and then Egypt and England during World War I.

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Hambling, Rosemary

Nursing sister who witnessed the change in attitude and practice of child birth.

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Hammond, Audrey

Nurse who became RBS Hammond's second wife.

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Kaye, Ruth Emilie

English-born nurse and public servant who came to Australia to escape her past as a convicted murderer, and made a new life under a new identity.

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King, Agnes

Matron and superintendent of reformatories Biloela and then Shaftesbury. She arrived in New South Wales in 1862 and established the reformatory for girls at Newcastle before coming to Sydney.

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King, Mary Truby

Karitane nurse and teacher who wrote extensively promoting the principles of Truby King's mothercraft.

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Livingston, Mary

The first matron at Rachel Foster Hospital.

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McGahey, Susan Bell

Matron of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1891-1904 who worked to advance the status of nursing as a profession.

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McLean, Vida

Nurse who saw service throughout World War I before embarking on a career in health promotion as matron of mother craft centres in New Zealand, Australia and India.

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McMaster, Jean

Matron who established the Coast Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1894.

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McMillan, Elizabeth

Nurse who saw service in the Middle East and Western Fronts before training in London in Dr Truby King's Plunket Mothercraft method. She became the first director of the Karitane organisation in Sydney responsible for nurse training and mother care.

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Mitchell, Sarah

Midwife and monthly nurse who also took in lodgers.

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Vidler, Ivy

Nurse.

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Warneke, Bertha

Nurse who worked in Karitane homes in New Zealand and Sydney.

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Wilson, Eileen

Matron trained in Karitane mothercraft nursing.

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Wrobel, Elinor

Art collector and curator who helped establish the Powerhouse Museum and also established the John Passmore Museum after the she convinced Passmore not to burn his artworks before his death. In 2009, Wrobel threatened a hunger strike in defence of the Lucy Osborn-Nightingale Foundation Museum at Sydney Hospital. A former nurse at Sydney Hospital, she fought to save the hospital's rare specimen collection.

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Callan Park Mental Hospital

One of the first purpose-built hospitals for 'moral therapy' which opened in 1884.

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Armfield, Lillian May

Pioneering Sydney policewoman whose long career spanned the city's razor gang wars. One of the first plain-clothed female detectives in Australia, in 1947 she was also the first woman of The Commonwealth to be awarded the King's Police and Fire Services Medal for outstanding service. After her retirement in 1949 she was awarded the Imperial Services Medal.

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Crown Street Women's Hospital

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Maternity and women's hospital which became the largest in Sydney when it moved to Crown Street in 1897, catering for Sydney's inner-city population and training hundreds of doctors, nurses and midwives. Closed in 1983, its facilities were transferred to hospitals in Sydney's outer suburbs.

Karitane

Philanthropic health care organisation for mothers and babies which grew out of the work of Doctor Truby King.

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Parramatta Industrial School for Females

Girls' home set up for neglected and 'uncontrollable' girls. It served a dual purpose as shelter for girls awaiting court appearances and as a reformatory. Conditions were draconian and punishment severe with little schooling but harsh 'training duties' including laundry and cleaning.

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Prince Henry Hospital

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Hospital established during the smallpox epidemic of 1881, on a then isolated bay south of the city. Later used as a convalescent hospital, and later as an infectious diseases hospital, it became a full teaching hospital and operated on the site until it was redeveloped for housing from 2001. Services were transferred to the Prince of Wales hospital.

Rachel Forster Hospital

Women's hospital established in 1922 in Surry Hills by Lucy Gullett and Harriet Biffin before moving to Redfern. It was named for Lady Forster, the wife of the Governor General.

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Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

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Major Sydney hospital in Camperdown that has trained doctors and nurses and treated Sydneysiders since it opened in 1882.

Sydney Hospital

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Hospital founded by Lachlan Macquarie and housed in a number of buildings in Macquarie Street.

Osburn, Lucy

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Nurse trained by Florence Nightingale, who became the first Lady Superintendent of Sydney Hospital.

Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary

Clinic created in 1826 to provide outpatient care for 'free poor persons, unable to pay for medical attendance'. It operated from several city premises before obtaining occupancy at the Rum Hospital. In 1844 it changed its name from the Sydney Dispensary to the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary, and in 1881 became the Sydney Hospital.

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