| Personal Details |
| Name: | Miss Mary Monkhouse |
| Type: | Staff |
| Born in camp? |
No |
| Died in camp? |
No |
| Gender: | female |
| Race: | white |
| Nationality: | British |
| Camp occupation: | nurse |
| Notes: | 14/12/1901: Mary Monkhouse to DA: Thanks him for reply. On account of this camp being small [Orange River], and having at present plenty of help (three English nurses having come the day before I arrived) there appeared to me to be no need for me to make a longer stay here than was required to get into touch with the chief member of the staff, so that I might arrange with them about any help they might need that I was able to supply. Having arranged this I see in this camp no other way in which I can be of use.
You are mistaken in your impression that I have undertaken the duties of camp matron at Kimberley; it is my friend Miss Mellor who has this honour. Miss Mellor came out with me to help in the work of the Society as our Society considered it advisable for several reasons that I should not come out here quite alone. It is regarding Miss Mellor and her work that I am desirous to see you. As far as I can judge her work is getting on alright and as two trained nurses arrived to assist her, the day before I left Kimberley, who seemed nice capable women, I think things will go on well.
I hope you will allow me to visit some of the other camps under your administration, especially those, if there are any, where typhoid fever or any other dangerously infectious disease has appeared, and where the nursing resources of the camp are not enough to adequately meet the need. In this way I could do the work of my Society by getting into touch with the camp authorities, so that I should be able to assist them if they needed it. Through my Socity; and also being a fully qualified nurse I could assist in the actual nursing of the sick.
I am returning to Kimberley at once so could you please address your reply to the RC there.
18/12/1901: CSRC to M Monkhouse, Kimberley: If your help is no longer required at Kimberley, I should very much like your services in another camp, and consider it best for you to come to Bloemfontein and confer with me as to where your ultimate destination should be. If you are agreeable to this would you kindly let me know. I should also like you to see the Bloemfontein RC.
23/12/1901: M Monkhouse to CSRC: Asks for permit that she may at once come to Bloemfontein to confer with you. I should very much like to see the Bloemfontein camp but my great anxiety is to go where I can be of most use in the relief work for which I cam out, and also if my experience as a nurse can be of help it is at your service. |
| Unique ID: | 17187 |
| Camp History |
| Name: | Winburg RC |
| Date departure: | 3/10/1902 |
| Reason departure: | dismissed because no longer needed |
| Destination: | Tweespruit relief camp |
| Notes: | 3/10/1902: described as Sister
14/10/1902: Cole Bowen, RM Winburg to Director of Relief Works: recommending Miss M as a most reliable lady. She is thoroughly practical and a person who would soon get everything ship-shape in the hospital line.
20/10/1902: MM to Mr Hope: Should like matronship of a relief camp. Should have preferred Mushroom Valley because many of the people from this camp have gone there and naturally I have a special interest in them. Could wait a little while to hear.
29/10/1902: Comfort to SRC Winburg: required for relief camp Tweespruit. |
| Sources |
| Title: | SRC 45 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 45 |
| Dates: | Sept-Oct 1902 |
| Notes: | A2027: 14/10/1902: Cole Bowen, RM Winburg to Director of Relief Works and related correspondence |
| Title: | SRC 35 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 35 |
| Dates: | Dec 1901-Jan 1902 |
| Notes: | A465, 14/12/1901: Mary Monkhouse to DA |
| Title: | SRC 42 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 42 |
| Dates: | June-July 1902 |
| Notes: | A1585: CSRC to SRC Winburg and related correspondence |
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