Matamata - Piako

Matamata

Matamata Private Maternity Home, Rotorua Line (c.1914 -c.1920)

Hillcroft Private Hospital, Matamata (c.1920-1921)

Nurse Ross (1920-1921)

Nurse Mairae (?) Luke, Melrose Private Hospital, Vosper Street (January 1923-1924)

Miss J M Ferguson (before WWII), Mona Winifred Cannell (after WWII), "Braeside Private Hospital," 2 Jellicoe Road (1921- c.2006). Now a rest home.

Matamata Nursing Home (c.1928-)

Morrinsville

Caroline Ada Seville (1874-1955) nee Insull, Loloma (Fijian for love) Hospital (1911-1915), Nurse White (1915) Craigholm Private Hospital (1916-1917), Thames Street. Nurse Annie Settatree Odgers (1918-1919, from Paeroa, then shifted to another Morrinsville location see below), Lynton Private Hospital, Park Street (1920-1954). Proprietor 1924 up to 1932, Agnes Tolerton.  Doreen Tolerton as at 1934-1936. Taken over by Waikato Hospital Board 1 October 1954. (www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/history/dates-in-morrinsville-history)

"As well as assisting her husband, Kitty Seville began an independent enterprise. In 1911, three years after the birth of a daughter, Katherine Margaret (Peggy), she opened Morrinsville's first hospital, which she named Loloma (Fijian for love). Primarily for maternity cases, the hospital also dealt with emergencies. Kitty Seville was manager, matron and midwife. At this time Bernard Freyberg (later governor general of New Zealand) came to Morrinsville to practise dentistry. He became a personal friend of the Sevilles and occasionally helped at the hospital. The Sevilles were called on to cope with several major health emergencies. During a smallpox epidemic in 1913, hundreds of Maori were vaccinated by Kitty, George and another local doctor. While George worked in an isolation camp on the outskirts of Morrinsville, Kitty took charge of his surgery, travelling on horseback over rough tracks each day to receive instructions for her patients from her husband. After the outbreak of the First World War Kitty Seville devoted her time to volunteer relief organisations and became a foundation and life member of the Red Cross sub-centre at Morrinsville. She sold Loloma and it continued to operate for nearly 40 years. In the 1918 influenza epidemic, an emergency hospital was established in the Morrinsville Baptist Church under Kitty's direction. At the same time she worked alongside others administering medicine, disinfecting houses and removing corpses in the surrounding district."

https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3s12/seville-caroline-ada

"Sincere sympathy will be felt for Mr F Tolerton in the death of an elder sister, Miss Agnes Tolerton which occurred yesterday morning in Morrinsville, where she and another sister conducted the Lynton Private Hospital. Miss Tolerton, who was the oldest of a family of nine, underwent a serious operation a few years ago, and had been an invalid for some time prior to her death." (Poverty Bay Herald, 28 November 1932)

"Sister Doreen Tolerton, daughter of Mr F Tolerton, of Gisborne, completed her midwifery course at St. Helen’s Hospital, Wellington recently, passing with honors. Sister Tolerton is in charge of the Lynton Private Hospital, Morrinsville." (Poverty Bay Herald, 12 February 1934)

Nurse Annie Settatree Odgers, Bura-Brae Nursing Home (1919-1924). Shifted to Hamilton.