Otago

Alexandra

Nurse Ruff "Paerata" (1930)

Nurse Bessie Ann Jesson (1886-1955), from 1940. See under Ngaruawahia.

Arrowtown

Nurse Ethel Annie Faris (1912-1913). Born 1880 in Edinburgh. Died 1973 in Christchurch. Maiden name Low. Married Norman Faris in 1899. By 1920, when her son Raymond (age 18) died accidentally from a gunshot to the head at Lake Wakatipu, Mrs Faris had moved to Huntly in the Waikato. Apparently divorced Norman Faris and married Alexander McLachlan.

Balclutha

Mrs Margaret Isabella McIntyre's Nursing Home, Douglas Street, "close to Railway Station" (1911-1920)

Nurse Bloomfield, James Street (1920-1928)

Cromwell

Nurse Scott (1912)

Nurse Jones, Ray Street (1916-1919)

Nurse McKenzie (1920-1929)

Dunedin

Mrs Anderson, Great King Street, Dunedin, “opposite Caledonian grandstand, has fitted her house with every convenience and comfort for ladies during their confinement.” (ODT 27 July 1866)

Mrs Cornish, 174 Princes Street South, Dunedin. Accouchements from £4 4s for first week, £2 2s for second week, after or before confinement, 21s per week. (North Otago Times, 20 July 1899) 1899-1900

Mrs Galbraith, 2 London Street, Dunedin (ODT 18 October 1900)

Mrs McLean, 44 Filleul Street (1904) (Otago Daily Times, 21 April 1904, p. 1(5) )

Mrs Alice Petersen, 28 Stuart Street (1905)

Nurse Emily Nutt, 432 George Street (1907-1913)

Nurse Martha Elizabeth Brews' Private Hospital, 211 Castle Street (1908-1913). Mrs. Brew, of St. Helen's Hospital, Dunedin, has just opened a nicely equipped private maternity hospital in Dunedin. (Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume 01, Issue 4, October 1908, Page 125). Transferred maternity cases to Nurse Cupples in November 1913 (see below).

Annie Durston (1910)
"Annie Durston was fined £5 for a breach of the Midwives’ Act by practising without being registered. The case arose out of the inquest on the girl McColl, who died after prematurely giving birth to twins at defendant’s house." (Greymouth Evening Star, 24 May 1910)

Nurse Clayton's Home, 188 Queen Street (1910-1920)

Nurse Mary Matilda "May" Cupples, "El Nido" 68 Albany Street (1913-1918), moved to 61 Duke Street, corner Castle Street (1919- at least 1957). Mrs Stevenson in 1944.

El Nido Private Hospital

"If you are looking for a nursing home near King Street it could possibly be the El Nido Maternity hospital. The Hocken Library has an excellent  photograph of El Nido and there is also a photograph on page 91 of the OTAGO  CAVALCADE 1931-35 collection of books by Hardwicke Knight. The Dunedin Public Library has a complete set of these publications. 

"According to this publication El Nido was on the corner of Duke and Castle streets and was  also known as Miss May Cupples Nursing Home. Originally it was the residence  of William Parker Street [1846-1899] who arrived in Otago in the 1860s, became clerk to the Resident Magistrate's Court and his name may be familiar  to genealogists as he was at one time the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Dunedin. He was living by the Water of the Leith in January  1876 when he bought the property and built the house now known as El Nido at 61 Duke Street. He was Mayor of Dunedin in 1883 and that year the property was transferred and a sub-section was lived in by Alexander and Jessie Thomson of the aerated water business [Lane Thomsons soft drinks]. 

"In  September 1919 Mary Cupples took over the building and it was used as a Maternity Hospital. She was in charge until 1939 when Annie Maud Angus became the matron. In 1948 the Otago Hospital Board took over El Nido as a ten to twelve bed maternity hospital until Queen Mary Maternity Hospital in Frederick Street opened. Some other maternity hospitals operating in Dunedin were Hill Jack, Redroofs, Forth Street, Rawiti and St. Helen's. Records of  these hospitals which have survived are at Archives New Zealand in Dunedin but access is restricted. 

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NEW-ZEALAND/2003-06/1055154556

She died in 1937. "The death took place at her home, "El Nido," Dunedin, last week, of Nurse Mary Matilda Cupples, one of the leading maternity nurses in Dunedin for 30 years. Nurse Cupples was born at Orepuki and, after training at Seacliff Mental Hospital, she entered St Helens Hospital and qualified for maternity nursing. Shortly after this she established her own maternity nursing home. For some years past Nurse Cupples was the Government examiner for the Dunedin candidates in practical midwifery." (Christchurch Press, 2 August 1937, p. 2)

Nurse Matheson, Royal Terrace (1914)

Nurse Page's, Queen Street (c. 1920-1921)

Nurse Thompson's Private Hospital, 188 Castle Street (1910-1913)

Annie Durston (1910). Annie Durston was fined £5 for a breach of the Midwives' Act by practising without being registered. The case  arose out of the inquest on the girl McColl, who died after prematurely giving birth to twins at defendant's house. (Grey River Argus, 25 May 1910). Durston was an unregistered ladies' nurse. Inquest began in April. 

Nurse Amy Isabel Pearson, 439 Castle Street, Dunedin  "Rahui" (1920-1928). She appears to have moved to Canterbury in the 1930s, and died in 1965, aged 84.

Nurse Hall, 1 Cutten Street, St Kilda (1921-1923)

Nurse Elizabeth Ross, "La Rochelle", 97 Elm Row (1921-1928). "The house was built for Robert and Julia Ivimey in 1901. From 1921 to 1947 it was "La Rochelle" maternity hospital, also known as Nurse Ross's. The matron was Elizabeth Ross, who closed the hospital five years before her death in 1952, at the age of 70. According to her obituary, "Miss Ross was born in Scotland and came to New Zealand in 1883 with her parents, who settled in Green Island, and later moved to Fairfield. She attended the Green Island and Fairfield Schools. After receiving her training at St Helens Hospital, Miss Ross did private nursing for many years. Her training was done under Matron Horford, who is still living in Dunedin. Social welfare work was one of her interests, and she was a member of First Church. Miss Ross is survived by three brothers, two in Dunedin and one in Green Island. Mr Alex. Ross, who was for many years groundsman at Carisbrook, is a brother." The poet James K. Baxter was born here on 29 June 1926. In more recent years the house has been a flat known as 'The Post Office'." 

(Text from Upright! Exploring Dunedin's Built Heritage, Facebook page, posted 6 October 2018. https://www.facebook.com/UprightDunedin/)

Mrs H Leedon, "Quendon" 9 Market St, St Kilda (1924-at least 1939)

Miss E E Pratt, Avalon, 42 Queens Drive, Musselburgh (1939)

Miss E D Ross, La Rochelle, 79 Elm Row (1939)

Lawrence

Mrs Parry, of Whitehaven Street, Lawrence, offered accommodation near the hospital (Tuapeka Times, 4 July 1885)

Mosgiel

Mrs Swan (1915)

Mrs M Goodlet (1939)

Middlemarch

Nurse Annie "Nancy" Chitty's Home, "Kaum-on-in," Mo(u)ld Street, "near Dr Rosa Colner" (1905-c.1919). Married to Robert Chitty, bootmaker. Died 26 September 1921. Her husband Robert seems to have returned to Caversham, where he died 3 July 1943.

Milton

Nurse Marryatt's Private Hospital (1915)

Oamaru

Nurse Bell's, Thames Street (c.1910)

Miss E Symington, Glen Maris Hospital, 24 Reed Street (1939)

Miss M C Thompson, Rangimarie, 210 Thames Street (1939)

Mrs M E Williamson, Nevada, 24 Coquet Street (1939)

Owaka

Miss E Dunlop (1939)

Palmerston

Nurse Crosswell (1914)

Queenstown

Mrs Redman, Shotover Street (1874), Lake Wakatip Mail, 27 January 1874 p2(1) 

Mrs Philips, corner Stanley Street and Gorge Road (1901)

Roxburgh

Nurse Watson (1924)

Tapanui

Nurse McLean (1914)

Waikouaiti

Nurse Martin (1918)