Nesta Helen Wells (9 July 1892 – 17 February 1986) was a British physician, and police surgeon (now known as forensic medical examiner).
[1] During the 1920s to 1940s, the organisation campaigned for the introduction of women as police surgeons to examine victims of sexual assault.
[3] Manchester City councillor Annie Lee joined the Watch Committee who oversaw the Manchester City Police,[4] and in 1927 convinced the committee to appoint a woman police surgeon specifically to examine women and children.
[1][6] Her part-time role primarily involved the examination of women and children who had been suspected of being victims of sexual assault, rape, and incest.
In 1958, Wells published a survey in the British Medical Journal of 1,959 suspected sexual offence cases which had been referred to her.