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St Helens Hospitals, New Zealand
The St Helens Hospitals were maternity hospitals located in seven New Zealand cities. They were the first state-run maternity hospitals in the world offering both midwifery services and midwifery training. The first hospital opened in 1905 in Wellington and the last one in Wanganui in 1921. The services of the St Helens Hospitals were gradually incorporated into other hospitals and the last hospital to close was in Auckland in 1990. History The 1904 Midwives Act enacted the training and registration of midwives in New Zealand and their supervision and regulation by the Health Department. This was followed by the establishment of seven state-owned maternity hospitals to train midwives and provide maternity care for the wives of working men. The hospitals were named after St Helens in Lancashire, England the birthplace of the Prime Minister Richard Seddon. There were St Helens Hospitals in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Gisborne, Invercargill, Wanganui and Wellington. Grac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Institute Of Studies
Auckland Institute of Studies (AIS) (formerly ''AIS St Helens;'' Māori: ''Te Whare Wānanga ki Hato Herena'') is the leading privately owned tertiary institute in Auckland, New Zealand. AIS was established in 1990, in Auckland's Downtown shopping centre. It moved into the former St Helens Maternity Hospital in Mt Albert, Auckland in 1993, after converting it into a tertiary residential campus. The institute now has two campuses in Mt Albert: St Helens Campus, located at 28a Linwood Ave and Asquith Campus, located at 120 Asquith Ave. AIS offers bachelor and masters level degree programmes in business, information technology, tourism management, and hospitality management. The institute's own English Language Centre offers a range of English language courses including English teacher training (CertTESOL). The institute is closely affiliated with the Centre for Research in International Education (CRIE). Courses Study areas Qualifications * 2 masters degrees * 7 postgradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Mangakāhia
Mēpara Te Aowhaitini Mangakāhia (4 September 1899 – 23 August 1940), known by the anglicised version Mabel of her given name, was a New Zealand district nurse who provided health support to Māori communities across the North Island. She was the most eminent and successful Māori nurse of her day. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngāti Whanaunga and Te Rarawa iwi. She was born in Whangapoua on Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand on 4 September 1899, the daughter of Meri Mangakāhia and Hāmiora Mangakāhia Hāmiora Mangakāhia (1838 – 4 June 1918) was a prominent Māori people, Māori chief and the first Premier of Te Kotahitanga, the movement for an independent Māori people, Māori parliament in New Zealand in the 1890s. Of Ngati Whanaunga .... She attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School and Queen Victoria School for Maori Girls. She completed her general nursing studies in Auckland in 1923. She did her maternity nursing studies at St Helens Hospital i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Clyde Inglis
Helen Clyde Inglis (15 November 1867 – 12 February 1945) was a New Zealand teacher, hospital matron and nursing activist. She was born in Christchurch, North Canterbury, New Zealand on 15 November 1867. Her father, the merchant John Inglis, was a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council The Canterbury Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Its capital was Christchurch. History Canterbury was founded in December 1850 by the Canterbury Association of influential Eng .... Career Before becoming a nurse Inglis was a teacher. In 1900 she began her nursing training at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, followed by midwifery training at the Glasgow Maternity Hospital. On her return to New Zealand in 1905 she worked at Timaru Hospital, then as Assistant Matron of Wellington St Helens. She was matron of Christchurch St Helens from 1907 to 1910 and matron of Wellington St Helens from 1914 to 1923. She was also Inspec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Holford
Alice Hannah Holford (12 November 1867 – 22 December 1966) was a New Zealand nurse, midwife and hospital matron. Early life Holford was born in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. Her parents were Captain J.A. Holford, Port Taranaki's harbour master, and Alice Holford, née Brooking. She applied to be a probationer (trainee nurse) at New Plymouth Hospital in 1886, however the hospital was not ready to train nursing staff and her father was also reluctant to allow her to train. As a result, she had to wait until 1897 to be admitted, during which time she helped her family with raising siblings and cousins, and went out with the local doctors on their rounds. She graduated in 1901, the fourth nurse to be trained at the hospital. Career Holford was determined to nurse babies, however there was no suitable training available in New Zealand at the time. So, in 1902 she borrowed money and travelled to Sydney to train as a midwife at Crown Street Women's Hospital. She was cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Ellis-Crowther
Vera Jane Ellis-Crowther (; 27 August 1897 – 6 July 1983) was a Liverpool-born New Zealand nurse and midwife. An early advocate for the use of anaesthetic during childbirth, Ellis-Crowther operated the Waitemata Obstetric Hospital in Glen Eden, West Auckland from 1945 to 1954. Later in life, Ellis-Crowther became an advocate for home birthing, delivering over 1,000 home birth babies in New Zealand. Biography Ellis-Crowther was born as Vera Jane Hodgson in Liverpool, England, on 27 August 1897. In 1924, Ellis-Crowther immigrated to New Zealand with her husband. Her husband had trained as a chemist, but when they arrived in New Zealand they worked on farms in Te Aroha, and later bought a 300 acre sharemilking farm at Maramarua. Her husband died in a truck accident in 1932, leading Ellis-Crowther to buy an orchard in Glen Eden, West Auckland. She retrained as a nurse and midwife at St Helens Hospital. While working at Huia Obstetric Hospital, Ellis-Crowther was inspired to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eunice Eichler
Eunice Mary Eichler (6 January 1932 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand Salvation Army officer, nurse and midwife. She established New Zealand's first school for pregnant teenagers in 1973, and was an advocate for open adoption. Early life, family and education Eichler was born in Milton on 6 January 1932. Both of her parents, Paul Allen Eichler and Alice Eichler (née Hart), were Salvation Army officers. She was educated at Thames High School and Otahuhu College. She went on to study nursing at New Plymouth Hospital, becoming a registered nurse in 1954, and continued her training at the Avon Maternity Hospital in Stratford, qualifying as a registered maternity nurse in 1955. She became a midwife in 1959 after training at St Helen's Hospital, Christchurch, and undertook further study at the Postgraduate School of Nursing in Wellington, where she was awarded a Diploma of Nursing in 1962. She attended Salvation Army Officer Training College in 1956, becoming a Salvation Army of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Donley
Joan Elsa Donley (; 16 March 1916 – 4 December 2005) was a Canadian-born New Zealand nurse and midwife. Donley was a key figure who shaped midwifery and the home birth movement in New Zealand. Biography Donley was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1916. She trained as a nurse at Saskatoon City Hospital as she could not afford to train as a doctor, and worked in a hospital in British Columbia. In 1964, Donley emigrated to New Zealand with her family, opening a fish market in Grey Lynn. After separating from her husband in 1969, she returned to healthcare, gaining a certificate in maternity from the National Women's Hospital, and completed a course in midwifery at St Helens in 1971. After which, she worked at Waitakere Hospital for two years. When West Auckland midwife and home birth proponent Vera Ellis-Crowther began retiring in the 1974, she asked Donley and her colleague Carolyn Young to take over her practice, so that home birth services could continue to be offered in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Cameron
Flora Jean Cameron (24 December 1902 – 13 January 1966) was a New Zealand nurse, nursing instructor and administrator. Biography Cameron was born in Richmond, New Zealand, on 24 December 1902. She did her nursing training at Christchurch Hospital, achieving her nursing registration in 1929. After some private nursing work in Lower Hutt and Wanganui she began maternity training in Blenheim at Holmdale Hospital. She did her midwifery training at the Auckland St Helens Hospital in 1932 and was then appointed a sister at St Helens Hospital in Wellington. She completed the Post-graduate Course in Nursing in Wellington in 1934 before taking on a position as public health nurse in Wanganui for four years. Within the Department of Health her organising abilities were recognised by the Director of Nursing, Mary Lambie, and she was promoted rapidly. In receipt of a Rockefeller Foundation study fellowship Cameron spent a year in 1938-1939 in Canada, the US, England and Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Bicknell
Jessie Bicknell (27 March 1871–13 October 1956) was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse, and a health administrator. She served in World War I and was made an Associate of the Royal Red Cross for her service. Early life Bicknell was born in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand on 27 March 1871 to Elizabeth Armstrong and Frederick Bicknell, a postmaster. She was one of ten children. She was educated in Oamaru and Melbourne and trained as a nurse at Nelson Hospital. In 1903 she was first in the country in the national nursing examinations. After completing her training, Bicknell worked at Wairau Hospital in Blenheim, and at Waipukurau Hospital. She then trained as a midwife at St Helens Hospital, Dunedin, completing her certificate in 1906. Career In May 1907, Bicknell was appointed Assistant Inspector of Hospitals. Working under Hester Maclean, and alongside Amelia Bagley, Bicknell travelled the country, including to remote rural areas. She was primarily involved w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Bagley
Amelia Bagley (2 October 1870 – 30 January 1956) was a New Zealand hospital matron, midwife and nursing administrator. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 2 October 1870. Career Bagley trained in Dunedin from 1892-1895, first working as a ward sister at Auckland Hospital and then as matron of Masterton Hospital from 1903-1905. In 1905, she became a registered midwife, one of the first trainees at St Helens Hospital in Wellington. She then spent two years private nursing. From 1908-1911, she was Assistant Inspector of Private Hospitals and Midwives in the Department of Hospitals and Charitable Aid inspecting small maternity hospitals and the practices of traditional midwives. Bagley, with Hester Maclean and Jessie Bicknell, had a major role in supervising the implementation of the Midwives Act 1904 and setting midwifery standards. In 1911 the Department of Health launched a Native Health nursing scheme to address the health needs of Maori. Bagley was appointed as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
