1912- 1917 ER “Idiot Asylum” Kew, Nurse.

From the House Committee report ODH 19 August 1918 - Miss Cubitt a nurse from the cottages Kew and Miss Bryant a nurse from the Melbourne benevolent asylum had been engaged and were on duty.

From the ODH House Committee report 18 November 1918 - nurses Cubitt and Bryant have completed their 3 months’ probation and they have been passed by the medical officer and approved of by the matron as properly fitted to continue their training.

From ODH House Committee report 21 October 1919 - … £15-1-5 was due to the nurses who are training here – the payments are in accordance with the circular received from the Board of Public Health dated 29 July 1919 and the amounts owing to the trainees are as follows - Nurse Gow £5-1-5, Nurse Bruce £3-8-9, Nurse I’Anson £3-9-9, Nurse Pini £1-15-0, Nurse Cubitt £1-6-6 …

From the ODH Inpatient Register 1 January 1906-28 April, 1925. Admitted as a patient with septic throat on 29 August 1920. 30 August 1920 discharged to her sister, Mrs Rogers of Rutherglen.

From the ODH House Committee report 16 May 1921 – Nurse Pini and nurse Cubitt were in Melbourne for their final examinations.

From the ODH House Committee report 20 June 1921 – Nurse Pini and nurse Cubitt had passed their RVTNA examinations.

From the ODH House Committee report 20 September 1921 – Nurse Cubitt will finish her training on October 1st …

From the ODH House Committee report 17 October 1921 – The Secretary reported that Nurse Cubitt had completed her training and left the institution.

Date of qualification October 1921.

Una Journal, 1 December 1923 – Miss Margaret A Cubitt and Miss McLeish have gone to Tasmania to do private nursing during the summer. They will reside at the Trained Nurses’ Club Hobart where they will probably obtain plenty of work as there is a shortage of nurses there.

1924 nursing at 20 Williams Road, Prahran.

1927 living at 5 Kensington Road, South Yarra, nurse. 5 Kensington road was a trained nurses’ home – See Table Talk, 23 March 1922.

1928 - 1931 living at 6 Stawell Street, Kew - ? trained nurses’ home.

1931 - 1935 Margaret is living with her sister, Elizabeth Sayers her husband John William Sayers at 23 Berry Street, Seddon.

1936-1937 is nursing at St Luke’s Private Hospital, 434 Glen Eira Road, Caulfield.

1942 – 1946 nursing at 23 Normanby Street, Middle Brighton, a private hospital.

December 1945 address is 23 Normanby Street, Middle Brighton.

Died at Brighton 10 March 1974 aged 86. Probate granted 10 June 1974. 

Fa: Arthur Mo: Elizabeth Cameron. Born 1888 Rutherglen. Did not marry.

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