OBITUARY Miss Cameron, Former Director Of Nursing

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30959, 15 January 1966, Page 2

OBITUARY Miss Cameron, Former Director Of Nursing

(N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE, Jan. 14. Miss F. J. Cameron, who died at Wellington last night, had a long and distinguished nursing career. She was 63. At the Red Cross conference in Gisborne in 1959 she was awarded the society’s highest international honour, the Florence Nightingale Medal. As director of the Division of Nursing, she succeeded Miss E. R. Bridges in 1950 and three years ago she was awarded the 0.8. E. and the Order of St. John. At the International Conference of Nurses in Germany Miss Cameron was appointed a member of the board of directors of the International Council of Nurses. She returned from a meeting of the board held in London last month.

Born in Richmond, Miss Cameron trained at Christchurch Hospital from 1925 to 1929, at the Holmdale Hospital in Blenheim and at St. Helens Hospital in Auckland. In 1930 she became a sister at St. Helens Hospital, Wellington, and after she took a post-graduate course in public health nursing she was appointed a public health nurse at Wanganui in 1934.

In 1938 she was granted a Rockefeller fellowship and studied medical social work at the University of Toronto’s School of Nursing. On her return to New Zealand in 1939 she was appointed nurse instructor at the New Zealand Post-graduate School for Nurses. She became deputy-director of nursing in 1949 and director in 1950.