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Birth GRO 1st qtr 1867
CHATFIELD, Florence Worthing 2b 309
Death 1949/B24611 Florence Chatfield William & Jane Porter
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CHATFIELD, FLORENCE (1867-1949),was a nurse. She was born on 1 February 1867 at Worthing, Sussex, England, daughter of William CHATFIELD, confectioner, and his wife Jane, née Porter. Educated in Worthing and London, she and her sister Emily migrated to Queensland as domestic servants, arriving on 3 June 1885 by the Chyebassa. Her widowed father brought out the rest of the family two years later.
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Emigrated on the "Chyebassa" departing London 7 Apr 1885, arrived Brisbane 3 Jun 1885.
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : Friday 28 November 1919)
It was notified yesterday that Miss Florence Chatfield (superintendent of the Diamantina Hospital) has been appointed a justice of the peace.
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MISS F CHATFIELD
Passenger Lists leaving UK
From London, United Kingdom to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Ship Name: ORSOVA
Departure Year: 1923
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Cairns Post (Qld. : Tuesday 12 January 1932)
Matron Chatfield Honored.
Matron Florence CHATFIELD, one of the best known members of the nursing profession in Brisbane and Queensland was one of the Queenslanders to receive New Year honors from the King and has been created an O.B.E. Miss Chatfield had received her training at the Brisbane General Hospital, and has been in charge of the Diamantina Hospital since 1900. Matron Chatfield has done wonderful work also in connection with' the A.T.N.A. since its formation, the Baby Clinic, and the Nurses' Rest Room, and was responsible for the foundation of the later. Patients and fellow workers alike are showering congratulations on the matron for the well deserved honor conferred upon her.
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : Wednesday 6 January 1932)
A WOMAN TO WOMEN
By "HESTIA"
Honoured Women
The majority of mankind and womankind like fairness, and for this reason the honour which has been conferred upon Mrs. Rose Stephens, of Hobart, and Miss CHATFIELD, of Brisbane, will be warmly welcomed. The thing which will please most of us about the event is that it is a recognition, not so much of arresting and spectacular efforts, as to the steady devotion of many years. That is particularly gratifying.
Miss Chatfield is another of the steady, reliable, responsible women. To come in contact with her is to get an immediate feeling of strength and power. I met her first when she was a young nurse in the Brisbane Hospital, known to her many friends as "Chatty." In 1914 she showed me over the hospital in her charge, the Diamantina for Incurables. As I had a letter from the Home Office, I was shown some things which the general public does not see. The people who rail against birth control and are apathetic on the subject of proper control of mental deficients should see one or two children such as I saw in that hospital. If they did their objections and their apathy would disappear never to return. One was the fifteenth Illegitimate child of its mother, the other (the more terrible of the two) was the second. Both mothers were again at large. I remember Miss Chatfield saying to me: "We are the people who are mad to let this kind of thing go on." Of course that was 18 years ago, and I have no doubt that such obviously undesirable mothers have now been checked in their activities, but there are still many abnormal little creatures being born into the world that we rightly deserve Miss Chatfield's word "mad."
However there were never two persons decorated who have more thoroughly earned their honours than, the two Australian women who have just received them.
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Cairns Post (Qld. : Friday 29 June 1934)
MATRON CHATFIELD.
After 47 years spent in the service of sick and suffering humanity Matron Florence CHATFIELD, O.B.E., lady superintendent of the Diamantina Hospital (South Brisbane), who will retire at the end of this month, said quite frankly that she was leaving active work without any complaints. During her career she has been "out of harness" only for six months' leave of absence, about 10 years ago, when she made a trip to England. "How can I complain," she said, "when I am leaving, after all these years, in the best of health?" The matron has reached the compulsory age limit for retirement.
For 34 years-in fact, ever since it has been opened-Matron Chatfield has been in charge of the Diamantina Hospital. She has watched it grow from a small concern of 32 beds in 1900 to its present size of 220 beds. She has trained hundreds of nurses, all of whom have the warmest memories of her sympathy and understanding. The Diamantina is a training school for nurses, and at present has a staff of 50.
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Worker (Brisbane, Qld. : Monday 18 December 1950)
TRANSMISSION BY DEATH
"THE REAL PROPERTY ACTS" 1861 TO 1942
(a) Florence CHATFIELD, late of Eagle Junction, Brisbane, spinster, (b) 5th Nov., 1849. (c) Dorothy Chapman, of Redclille, wife of Joseph William Chapman, (d) Subs. 1 to 3, por. 76, parish Oxley. (e) Fee-simple. (1) Will and Codicil dated 29th November, 1932, and 27th June, 1945. respectively. (a) Florence CHATFIELD, aforesaid, (b) 5th Nov 1949. (c) Kate Heussler, of Eagle Junction, Brisbane, widow, (d) Subs. 87 to 89, resub. 1. sub. A, allot. 1, por. 5. parish Toombul. (e) Fee- simple, (i) Will and Codicil dated 25th November, 1932, and 27th June, 1945, respectively.
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : Saturday 5 August 1950)
Matron's £5500
The will of Florence CHATFIELD, retired matron, formerly of the Diamantina Hospital. South Brisbane, was admitted to probate yesterday. Gross value of the estate was: Realty £1591, personalty £4082.
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Encyclopedia of Australian Science
CHATFIELD, Florence (1867 - 1949)
Born 1 February 1867, Worthing, Sussex, England
Died 5 November 1949, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation, Nurse and Hospital administrator
Summary
Florence Chatfield was Matron and then Superintendent of the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases, Queensland from 1900-34. She was also supervisor and organiser of the Queensland Government Baby Clinics from their inception in 1918. She presided over the founding meeting in 1904 of the Queensland Branch of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association (now Royal Australian Nursing Federation), and worked for it in many ways for over 40 years. She was also a foundation member and trustee of the Nurses' Rest Home and Benevolent Fund.

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