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HADRILL, BEATRICE MARY (1889-1960)

HADRILL, BEATRICE MARY, nurse and hospital superintendent; b. Montreal, 10 Jul 1889, d/o Alfred William Hadrill and Frances Ann Forster; unmarried; d. St Andrews, Que., 13 Aug 1960.

Beatrice M. Hadrill was educated at Montreal High School and McGill University (BA 1912), where she was a contemporary of Louise Manny. During her college years she was a basketball player and vice-president of the YWCA. The personal motto which appears with her graduation photo in the 1912 edition of Old McGill is "Let us then be up and doing."

After taking her degree Hadrill entered training at the Montreal General Hospital and qualified as an RN. She was later employed at the Homeopathic Hospital in Montreal, where she rose to be head nurse. She was later attracted to New Brunswick because of the province's need for nurse administrators, and she held a position for a time at the Chipman Memorial Hospital in St Stephen.

In 1936 Hadrill accepted the superintendency of the Miramichi Hospital, as successor to Eliza J. Keys. No sooner had she taken up her duties than she let it be known that she was dissatisfied with the quality of the nurses' training program. To emphasize the point she admitted no new trainees in 1936 or 1937. The Hospital Board, which was at serious odds with her over the issue, requested by resolution in 1937 that the school be reopened. Faced with what amounted to an instruction she began to look for ways to design and implement a credible alternative to the former program, and with the assistance of a new full-time nursing instructor, was able to do so.

Hadrill was described by one who remembered her as "a big, cheerful, capable woman who could make decisions." She was one who gave her energies unstintingly to the administration of health care at a time when women had not yet entered the field in large numbers. Although her reluctance to compromise angered the hospital trustees and others, few questioned her professional competency or overall effectiveness as superintendent at Newcastle. As an executive member of the New Brunswick Nurses' Association she also made a contribution to the organization of the profession in the province. She was succeeded at the hospital in 1949 by Helen J. Lynds. During her retirement she made her home at St Andrews, near Lachute, Que.

Sources

[b] Hadrill family data [d] Commercial World 25 Aug 1960 / Can. Who's Who 1948 (under Geoffrey William Hadrill); Gill; Leader 24 May 1963, 3 Jan 1995


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