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House, Victoria Street; No. 5, and Nurse Louise Renshaw.

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DescriptionNurse Louise Renshaw stands outside her home in Victoria Street. A registered midwife, she transformed her residence into a maternity home on January 12, 1920 (or 1917 in some accounts). This is considered to have been the first hospital in Upper Hutt. The lounge was used as a theatre and Dr Kemp, the sole doctor, did minor operations on the dining room table. This photograph was taken in 1924. Nurse Elsie Ogilvie (later Elsie Gibbs), Upper Hutt's first Plunket nurse, also stayed here with the Renshaw family during the 1920s. The house used to stand at 5 Victoria Street, one of only three houses in the area at that time. It burned down in the 1930s (1930 according to the 2005 article).

Picture used in 'Upper Hutt; The History', P. 245.

It was also printed in the 'Leader' on November 14, 1989, with Nurse Renshaw's daughter Daisy Downing's reminiscences, and a suggestion that if Elderslea closed, Upper Hutt's maternity services would be back to 'square one'.
It was printed yet again on July 31, 1990; this time with an article from an interview with her son, Peter Renshaw, on his memories.
In a June 22, 2005 obituary on Sonja Davies, a prominent Labour politician and member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Peter Renshaw mentioned that she has been born in this house in 1923, and was an occasional visitor with her mother, Gwladys Vile. The article said Mrs Renshaw had started the Upper Hutt Plunket branch in November 1923, and that the hospital had closed in the late 1920s when health-department rules toughened.

The collection has two prints; one 127 x 88 mm; and the other 176 x 127 mm; this image comes from the smaller print, which has more detail at right, and less at left. Date Taken1924Geotag^[1]

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OrganisationUpper Hutt Plunket Society Last edited by: Don McLeod

SubjectHospitalsNurses

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House, Victoria Street; No. 5, and Nurse Louise Renshaw.

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