Name Myra Taylor | Died January 8, 1939 | |
Myra Louise Taylor (September 24, 1881 – January 8, 1939) was a nurse born in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, the youngest of nine children of Eliza Hannah Manston Calpin and Richard Henegar Taylor. April 1916 Taylor was appointed superintendent of nurses and of the school of nursing at the General Hospital of St. John's.
Educated at Church of England Academy, Bay Roberts then in 1907 she went onto the new school of nursing located in St. John's. Immediately upon her graduation in 1910, she was appointed head nurse of the surgical wards of the St. John's General Hospital. She resigned her position in October 1911 to study midwifery at Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital, London where Taylor received a diploma from the Central Midwives Board of England and Wales. Taylor then went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital where she obtained a diploma in Swedish massage, returning to Newfoundland in August 1913.
Upon her return to Newfoundland she did private duty nursing and in 1914 she volunteered her services and was placed in charge of caring for the survivors of the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster. Taylor was often employed by the St. John Ambulance Corps in St. John's where she became divisional superintendent of the Avalon Nursing Division, then on April 1, 1916 she was appointed to succeed Mary Southcott as superintendent of nurses and the School of Nursing at the St. John's General Hospital.