Gisborne

Gisborne

Mrs R Chudley, 20 years’ experience, Palmerston Road, Gisborne (Poverty Bay Herald, 3 October 1890)

Mrs Plummer, 209 Gladstone Road, Gisborne (Poverty Bay Herald, 22 October 1898)

Nurse Neilson, Stout Street, Whataupoko (c.1904)

Nurse Caroline Havers (1858-1918), Gladstone Road (c.1907-1908) "Branston Villa", 42 Lytton Road (1908-1918). A certified nurse, late of Women's Hospital, Melbourne. http://www.familytreecircles.com/nurse-havers-gisborne-50372.html Husband: Henry Branston Havers (1858-1943), a gut-house hand at the local freezing works in 1907. Caroline died during the 1918 influenza epidemic. Both are buried in Plot 210, Block EC1 at Taruheru cemetery, Gisborne.

Nurse Henry, Peel Street (c.1907-1912), "Restormel" 405 Palmerston Road (1919-1920) - with Nurse Humphreys (below)

Nurse Humphreys, "Restormel Home", Childers Road (c.1908-1917), "Restormel", 405 Palmerston Road (1917-1919), 117 Childers Road (1920)

Nurse Hallam, Victoria Township (c.1908-1910)

Nurse Langford, Aberdeen Road (c.1910-1912)

Elizabeth Townley Maternity Home (1910-1922), aka Townley St Helens, Childers Road.

(Auckland Weekly News, 28 April 1910, AWNS-19100428-14-3, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections)

MATERNITY HOME.

COMPLETION OF NEW BUILDING

The Maternity Home, for which the members of the Cook's County Women's Guild have been working with commendable energy, has been completed, and the building will be taken over tomorrow. This is the third landmark in the form of a public institution established in Gisborne by the same body of ladies, and they are to be congratulated upon the success which has attended their efforts in every instance. The Maternity Home occupies a good position in Childers Road.. It has been erected in the centre of an acre of land granted for the purpose by the Government through the ex-Minister for Lands (Mr McNab). It is within easy reach of town, and yet not too close, being next to the Poverty Bay Golf Club's pavilion. It is in a splendid position to receive the sea breezes, and there are no surroundings to contaminate tho freshness of the atmosphere about the home.

The main entrance to the building opens into a vestibule, which will be used as a waiting room for visitors. On both sides of this there is a private ward, provided with grates and cupboards in the chimney recesses. These two compartments have large windows looking out on to Childers road. From the vestibule a spacious passage runs right through to the rear of the building. To the right of the passage the two main wards are situated. These are fine rooms, 25ft by 19ft. They both have casements opening on to the verandah, and are connected with each other by an ordinary doorway. The floors in these wards are stained and polished, and fitted with necessary conveniences. Adjoining the wards is a smaller room, which will probably be utilised as a nursery. Here a porcelain wash basin, with hot and cold water laid on, is provided. This room forms the end of the side verandah, on to which it opens. To the left of the passage the matron's quarters are situated. These consist of a sitting-room and a bedroom, both being provided with a grate and cupboards built in the chimney recesses. The dining-room comes next in order, and with terracotta paper forms an attractive compartment. It is connected with the kitchen by a slide, which will facilitate the work of waiting on the tables.

The kitchen, which is next to the dining-room, is fitted with every convenience. There is a profusion of shelving and cupboards, and a fine two-oven Shacklock range is provided. A high-pressure hot water system is installed, and the boiler, which occupies a cupboard next to the range, is padded so that the water will keep hot during the night. There is a pantry and a scullery connected with the kitchen, latter being provided with zinc, over which a plate rack is erected. On the other side of the passage, opposite the kitchen, there is a servants' room. The back portion of the premises are taken up with up-to-date lavatories and conveniences. The former are well fitted out and connected with hot and cold water.

At the back of the main building, which is built with timber there is a two-storey brick building, connected with the main premises by a small landing. The ground floor of this building has been suitably fitted up. Upstairs there are two nurses' rooms. Flights of steps lead from the back entrances, of which there are two, and on the town side of the home there is a small building, containing a nicely fitted out washhouse, woodhouse, and isolation ward. The main building is set on a brick foundation, which rises well off the ground, and at the back a small door has been placed, which gives access beneath the building. A brick cellar is built alongside the brick building, and this supports two large tanks. The cellar is provided with shelving, and will be an ideal place in which to keep milk, butter, etc. The tanks are connected with the city water, so that should they run dry they can be quickly refilled. There is a verandah on three sides of the main building. The eastern end of the front portion is closed in with colored glass, and an office is also situated at the same end. With the exception of the kitchen and scullery steel ceilings have been provided throughout the building.

Although there is nothing elaborate about the outward appearance of the Home, the inside and conveniences are all that could be desired in any institution. Special - attention has been paid to the ventilation, and over all the windows and every door, inside and out, fanlights have been placed. An elaborate system of drainage has been installed, and so constructed that when the sewerage scheme is an accomplished fact in Gisborne the necessary connections can be made without the slightest delay or inconvenience. Another feature about the building is an excellent system of electric bells. All the main rooms are connected, and there is a register in the kitchen, from a glance at which it can be ascertained which compartment requires attention. The contractor, Mr G Smith, has made a splendid job of the Home. The work was carried out under .the supervision of Mr J R Little, who ably acted as honorary architect to the Guild.

The Home presented an animated appearance today, when a working bee of members of the Guild were busily engaged cleaning up. An early start was made with the work, which was continued until this afternoon; the workers having taken their lunch with them. With the energy and willingness which characterises this body of ladies the Home was soon cleaned up, and made ready for furnishing. It was part of the contractor's work to clean up, but he gave the Guild £3 2s to do the work. The enthusiastic secretary (Mrs A Scott) supervised the operations, and the "bee" included Mesdames Townley, Maynard, Gordon, West, Steele, Goldsmith, Goffe, Smith, Beere, Stevenson, Nisbett, Lyndon, Lentill, Cliurch, Morell, and Fraser, and Misses Morell (2). The matron is expected to arrive from South tomorrow. (Poverty Bay Herald, 1 March 1910)

Nurse Yates, Aberdeen Road (c.1911-1919)

Nurse Harris, 16 Leith Street (c.1911)

Nurse Wm. Ratcliffe, 403 Palmerston Road (c.1911)

Nurse Auld, Palmerston Road (c.1911-1920)

Nurse Gill, 460 Gladstone Road (c.1911-1914), "Haven Rest", Norman Street (1916-1920)

Nurse Green, Mangapapa (c.1911-1915)

Nurse Cross, Herbert Road (c.1912)

Nurse Johanson, Palmerston Road (c.1912)

Nurse Kennedy (c.1913)

Nurse O'Connor, 507 Gladstone Road, Te Hapara (c.1913-1916)

Nurse Morris, 417 Palmerston Road (c.1913-1914), "Kaimoe", Derby Street (1915)

Nurse Craft, Stout Street (c.1914-1915)

Miss Mary Emma Wade (c.1914-1956). In the 1914 electoral roll she was at Lister Hospital, Riverside Road in Gisborne, and shifted to 116 Rutene Road, Gisborne by the 1920s. Still there in 1954. Looks like she died 11 June 1956, and was buried in a family plot at Poverty Bay (if so, she was born 24 December 1876, according to the NZSG transcription for Makaraka Cemetery, p.61). 116 Rutene Rd was listed under the 1938 Social Security Act as a private maternity hospital.

Nurse Goodall, Windsor House, 408 Palmerston Road (c.1915-1919)

Nurse Wheeler, Rostrevor Private Hospital (c.1915)

Nurse Williams, 357 Childers Road (c.1915-1920)

Nurse Holloway, "Calder Glen", 517 Gladstone Road (c.1916-1920)

Nurse O'Connell, Te Karaka (c.1916)

Nurse Lewis, Riverside Road (c.1918)

Nurse Blackburn, "Waione" 522 Aberdeen Road (c.1919-1920)

Captain E Berry, Edward Murphy Home, Aberdeen Road, (c.1939-at least 1945)

Mrs M A Powell, Orotawa, 76 Macdonald Street (1939)

Miss H Wright, Crescent Home, 49 Nelson Street (1939)

Waikaremoana

Nurse Alison, Waitoa (1924)