Person

Hill, Kate (1859 - 1933)

Born
7 May 1859
Walsall, Staffordshire, England
Died
2 February 1933
Woodside, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Nurse and Hospital administrator

Summary

Kate Hill was Head Nurse at the Adelaide Children's Hospital from 1887 and from 1891 to 1902 was Superintendent of Nurses. In 1902 she moved to the Private Hospital in Adelaide where she became a partner and remained until 1913.

Archival resources

State Records of South Australia

  • Kate Hill - Records, 1887 - 1920, D 5516 (L); State Records of South Australia. Details

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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Book Sections

  • Gibberd, Joyce, 'Hill, Kate (1859-1933), nurse' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 296-297. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hill-kate-6670. Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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