Matrons of New Plymouth Hospital
Description
Copy negative of five women wearing nurse uniforms with a man wearing a suit.
Front row (left to right): Miss Jessie Irvine, matron Mary Fernandez and sub-matron Elizabeth Browne.
Back row: Miss Brenda Smith, Mr C.T. Mills and Miss Margaret Furlong.
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'Swainson/Woods
Collection,
Puke
Ariki
and
District
Libraries'
Accession number
WD.016866
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Public comments
'Miss Furlong' is probably Margaret Furlong who was a senior nurse at NP Hospital where she had done her training. In April 1900 she left to become acting Matron at Hawera Hospital. She resigned there when she married on 31 March 1904 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19040409.2.5 This photo would have been taken Feb 1894- Mar 1898 when Fernandez was Matron. She resigned in March 1898 due to ill health and died August 1898.
- B. Wattrus posted 7 months ago.