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Florence MacDowell

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MacDowell stayed in England and began working for as an Investigator for the British Branch of the Board of Pensions Commissions, initially for the Canadian government and then for the Australian. After this, she worked on the east coast of Canada in immigration, before returning to England to work
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Union, under the British Red Cross, and later in 1916 returned to Europe as the matron of an 80-bed hospital in
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After completing her training, MacDowell opened her own private hospital called ‘Windarra' at
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to Swanston Hay MacDowell and Kathleen Champ. She trained as a nurse at the
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in Melbourne. That hospital was bought by the future philanthropist
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MacDowell died in Melbourne on 25 April 1939 after a long illness.
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Victoria, Australia
Victoria, Australia
World War I
Melbourne
Alfred Hospital
Adelaide
Toorak
Edith Hughes-Jones
Elba
Tuscany
British Red Cross
Serbia
Millicent Fawcett
Volhynia
Galician
scarlet fever
erysipelas
smallpox
dysentery
Podgorica
Barnado's







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