Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Nursing
Lot 2813 SESSION 10 (11.30AM WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER) Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Nursing (1
Estimate $300
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SOLD $180
TOWNLEY - ST HELENS MATERNITY HOME, Founded 14th April 1910, nurse's medal, struck in silver (28mm), by W.Good (Gisborne), ring top with bar and pin-back suspension, reverse inscribed '785A/M.E.V.Parkes/7.6.16'. Toned, good very fine.
In 1904 the government set up the St Helens hospitals, which, for the first time in New Zealand's history, provided subsidised maternity care for low-income women. They were staffed by trained midwives.
A hospital was opened in Gisborne when a committee of ladies, headed by Mrs Townley, with the approval of the Government, established the Townley Maternity Hospital of six beds in 1910.
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