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Clara Winifred Howie

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31: 163:. In 1919 she was the assistant superintendent of nurses for the DTNS in Adelaide. She became the superintendent in 1926, sending her nurses into the bush to care for Aboriginal families if they could or would not attend the nursing stations. 170:
from 1924 and in 1937 she was briefly the acting president. The DTNS became the "District and Bush Nursing Society of S.A. Inc" in 1937 and she led the South Australian branch of the ATNA from 1937 to 1941. In 1948 she became a
141:. Her parents were Clara Jane (born Hotham) and her husband George Cullen Howie who had emigrated from Scotland. Her father died in 1883 and his mother took the children to stay with her father, the Rev. John Hotham, in 156:
in the following year. She was over 350 miles from Adelaide and he closest doctor was 150 miles away. She lived at the pub learned to ride a camel as her patients were Indian and Afghan cameleers.
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In 1919 she opened a new branch of the District Trained Nursing Society at
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Howie died in 1960 at her house in the Adelaide suburb of
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Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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Howie was born in 1881 in Adelaide's seaside suburb of
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before leading the South Australian branch until 1941.
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Glenelg
Forestville
Australian
District Trained Nursing Society
MBE
Australasian Trained Nurses' Association
Glenelg
L. H. Howie
Port Elliot
District Trained Nursing Society
Hergott Springs
Goolwa
Australasian Trained Nurses' Association
Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Forestville




"Sister Winifred Howie"







"Clara Winifred Howie (1881–1960)"
'Howie, Laurence Hotham (1876–1963)'

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