Additional Information
Additional Information
- 1933 - Possibly the only nurse to ever buy her own hospital, the Warrawee Private Hospital on Oxide Street, Broken Hill, New South Wales.
Resources
Link - Simper, Elsie (1905 - 1999)
The Australian Women's Register
Link - NURSES. Examination Passes.
Trove: Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842 - 1954), Friday 12 December 1930, page 9
References
- hand-written notes from Emily SIMPER in NPWHF HerStory file
- Part of Broken Hill’s History Falls to Progress. newspaper unknown. date unknown:page unknown.
- Nicholls, Brenda. Sister Simper is known from Broken Hill to Ballarat. newspaper unknown. date unknown:page unknown.
- Warrawee Private Hospital – Broken Hill [pamphlet]. (year unknown). N.P.: Publisher. from Emily SIMPER in NPWHF HerStory file
Image - Sister Simper
Sr Simper, Dana St, Ballarat
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Sister Simper with twins
Jemephen [? spelling] and Judith Caines with Sr Simper, Dec. 17th 1937, Warrawee Private Hospital, Broken Hill
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Autoclave, Warrawee Private Hospital
Autoclave in new midwifery ward at Warrawee Private Hospital
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Sisters Ryan and Simper
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Graduation of Fairfield nurses, 1926
Graduation of Fairfield nurses, 1926. E. Simer - front row - second from left.
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Warrawee Hospital: staff, patients, and "Daddy" Ryan
Staff, patients, and "Daddy" Ryan (on right), Warrawee Hospital.
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Warrawee Private Hospital
Warrawee Private Hospital, 1937-1943
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Cable Hotel
Cable Hotel. Built 1867. It became Warrawee Private Hospital in 1933 until February 1943.
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.
Image - Broken Hill Transport
Broken Hill Transport, 1929
Photo provided by Emily Elsie SIMPER; from NPWHF Emily Elsie SIMPER file.