Members of the South Sydney Women's Hospital, 1917, courtesy of Integricare.
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The Training School for Midwifery Nurses was part of South Sydney Women's Hospital in Gilpin Street, Newtown. It was started by Louisa Ardill. This was a highly significant institution in the history of midwifery in Sydney. It offered an outreach service to poor women and its graduates went on to work in a range of roles. It closed when South Sydney Women's Hospital closed.
Sources used to compile this entry: Integricare History, Integricare, Burwood, 2012, 4 pp; Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf.
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Created: 22 March 2011, Last modified: 30 August 2013
Last updated: 31 May 2023
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