History of the Bowmont Centre
Researched by Linley Plester.
Contents
Personalities associated with the Bowmont Centre
Managers of the Commercial Bank of Tasmania
1904-1921 not known
1904-1907 A H Davis
1908 E O Button
1909-1913 C A Drake
1914-1916 T Mawdsley
1917-1918 A H Davis
1919-1920 L L Steer
1921 G B Murphy
Managers of the Commercial Bank of Tasmania
1904-1921 not known
1922-1929 G B Murphy
1930-1935 R Wilkins
1936-1943 L F Lovett
Doctors who worked at the Bowmont Hospital
Dr Oswald Theodore Kyle
Dr Coates
Dr Matzek
Dr Aleister
Dr Vernon Younger
Dr Dargaville
Matrons at Bowmont Hospital
Matron Lil King
Matron Whelan
Matron Cole
Matron Gwenda Canning 1956–65
Other Nursing Staff
Mrs Jean Burgess - Nursing assistant 1945 +
Mrs Di Clark (nee Gorringe) - Nursing sister 1959-63
Mrs Joan Clark - Nursing sister 1962-65
Barbara Doyle – nursing assistant still employed at Eldercare
Mrs Margaret ‘Dawn’ Hay (nee Bradley) - Nursing assistant
Miss Nancy Heather- Nursing assistant
Miss Chrissie Hitchins - Nursing assistant
Sally McVilly – nursing assistant
Sister Gladys (Wally) Mitty (nee Walton) 1945 –1965
Rosemary Reid – nursing assistant
Kylene Stansfield – Nursing Assistant
Attendance at the first Huon District Hospital Board Meeting 27/9/1948
Dr Turnbull (Minister for Health)
Mr P A Driscoll (Secretary of the Public Works Dept)
Dr Carruthers (Director of Hospitals and Medical Services.
Mr W G Porter (Hospital Board member)
Mr B T Tall (Hospital Board member)
Mr I D Griggs (Hospital Board member)
Mrs D Gridley (Hospital Board member)
E Cracknell (Hospital Board member)
F C Dooley (Hospital Board member)
C P Skinner (Hospital Board member)
G E Frankcomb (Hospital Board member)
K B Frazer (Secretary to the Board)
Others
Kay family – government sponsored tenants of Bowmont building some time between 1965 and 1975
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