4. Elizabeth Streitberg (nee Harris) Nurse

Elizabeth Harris’ (bc1815) granddaughter said that the family story was that Elizabeth had been trained as a nurse by Florence Nightingale.  As a result of her nursing training Elizabeth was often called upon to supply aid in Gippsland West’s forestry and farming camps and communities.

“In the Crimea on 29 November 1855, the Nightingale Fund was established for the training of nurses during a public meeting to recognise Nightingale for her work in the war. There was an outpouring of generous donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund and the Duke of Cambridge was chairman. Nightingale was considered a pioneer in the concept of medical tourism as well, based on her 1856 letters describing spas in the Ottoman Empire. She detailed the health conditions, physical descriptions, dietary information, and other vital details of patients whom she directed there. The treatment there was significantly less expensive than in Switzerland.

Nightingale had £45,000 at her disposal from the Nightingale Fund to set up the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas' Hospital on 9 July 1860. The first trained Nightingale nurses began work on 16 May 1865 at the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. “

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale)

Immigration information has Elizabeth Harris in Melbourne by early 1860 (aged 23).  Elizabeth Harris' nursing training would seemingly have occurred in Melbourne in the Nightingale approach, rather than under Nightingale.

Elizabeth Streitberg (nee Harris).