The Archives

• A history of the public hospital in Wellington+
  • The Children’s Hospital
  • Additions 1913 – 1939
  • Additions 1940 – 1960+
    • The Centenary Block
    • The Hospital Post Office
    • The Hospital in the 1950s
  • The Thorndon Hospitals
  • The first Newtown Hospital
  • Early expansion 1888 – 1910+
    • 1901 – 1906
    • 1907 – 1910
• The Early Staff of the Hospital
• Nursing Administration+
  • 1880-1920+
    • Mary Anne Baillie
    • Elizabeth Hermansen
    • Mrs Johanne M Thorpe
    • Mrs Bernard Moore
    • Ellen Dougherty
    • Augusta Godfrey
    • Mary E Kissling
    • Frances K Payne
    • Ellen Mary Pettit
    • Kate Marsden
    • Elizabeth Katherine Berry
    • Edith Crerar
    • Sarah Jane Hetherington ARRC
    • Elizabeth Williamina Inglis Stott
    • Jean Todd
    • Maggie Preston
  • 1921 – 1960+
    • Edith P Tennent
    • Gertrude S Lampp
    • Agnes Milne
    • Althea H Cookson
    • Florence E Hart
    • Blanche L Clark
    • Susan Milne
    • Noeline M Knight
    • Muriel E Tattersall
    • Kathleen G Hausmann
    • Doris Brown
    • Jessie I Martin
    • Irene Tolerton
  • 1961 – 1988+
    • Betty P Cook
    • Barbara J E Hough
    • Mavis H Paton
    • Gloria A Grattan
    • Elaine Whiteman
    • Barbara G Shadbolt
    • Maureen Corry
    • Assistant Principal Nurses
  • 1989 –+
    • Sheila Mahony
    • Anita Bamford-Wade
    • Cheyne Chalmers
    • Kerrie Hayes
    • Andrea McCance
    • Emma Hickson. 2019 – 2020
    • Associate Directors of Nursing

Doris Irene Brown

Born Napier 24 Apr 1905 — Died 9 Jun 2005 (aged 100)

Trained at Hawera Hospital; RN 1927

Midwifery Certificate, St Helens Hospital, Wellington

Plunket Certificate, Karitane Hospital, Dunedin

Diploma in Nursing, Wellington Hospital 1937

Sister, Hawera Hospital and Auckland Hospital

Sister-in-charge, Camp Hospital, Ngaruawahia, Oct 1939–Jan 1940

Matron, 4 General Hospital Jul–Oct 1940

Matron, 2 General Hospital Oct 1940–Jun 1943

Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) 1941

Supervising Matron, Dunedin Hospital 1944–1954

Director, Nursing Services, Army, Navy & Air 1954

Matron, Wellington Hospital 1954–1956

Married Robert Milne, May 1956

Resigned in Oct 1956 after Wellington Hospital Board-initiated inquiry into nursing services.