Hannah McLeod

Hannah McLeod (25 August 1857– 24 October 1912) was an Australian hospital matron, nurse and midwife McLeod was born in 1857 in Sydney, New South Wales Her parents were Eleanor Fowler (born Phillips) and her husband William Browne McLeod and she was their fourth child.

[1] She went to school in Sydney and then trained at Newcastle General Hospital.

[2][3] She was a member of Australasian Trained Nurses' Association[1] In 1907, she testified before the New South Wales Parliament.

[4] McLeod wrote a section on "The Early Rearing and Handling of Children" in Hannah Rankin's Handbook of Domestic Science.

[5] McLeod died from pneumonia in October 1912.