Person

Bell, Jane (1873 - 1959)

OBE

Born
16 March 1873
Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Died
6 August 1959
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Nurse

Summary

Jane Bell was lady superintendent of Melbourne Hospital 1910-1934. She made many innovations, including replacement of male orderlies by sisters in the operating theatres; the appointment of tutor-sisters to instruct trainees and of a house-sister to supervise the nurses' quarters; the introduction of a six-week preliminary course; and pay for trainee-nurses.

Details

Chronology

1898
Career position - Nursing Certificate completed at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
1898 - 1903
Career position - Various staff appointments
1903 - 1904
Career position - Matron at Bundaberg Hospital, Queensland
1904 - 1906
Career position - Matron at Brisbane General Hospital
1906 - 1907
Career position - Midwifery training at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London
1907 - 1910
Career position - Senior Assistant Superintendent of Nurses at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
1910 - 1934
Career position - Lady Superintendent of Melbourne Hospital
1913 - 1915
Career position - Australian Army Nursing Service
1924 - 1950
Career position - Member of the Nurses' Board
1931 - 1934
Career position - President of the Royal Victorian College of Nursing
1938 - 1946
Career position - President of the Royal Victorian College of Nursing
1944
Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Goodman, Rupert and Williams, Jennifer A., Jane Bell, OBE, Lady Superintendent: the Royal Melbourne Hospital, 1910-1934 (Melbourne: Spectrum Publications, 1988), 281 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Gardiner, Lyndsay, 'Bell, Jane (1873-1959), hospital matron' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), p. 257. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070254b.htm. Details
  • Williams, Jennifer, 'Jane Bell (1873-1959) hospital matron' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details

Edited Books

  • Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

  • Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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