Evelyn Paget Evans

Evelyn Paget Evans (11 November 1881 – 10 April 1960) was an Australian administrator. She led several organisations associated with medicine and nursing. She argued against nurses being in a union and for giving them improved working conditions. She was secretary of the Australian Physiotherapy Association from 1917 until 1956.

Life Evans was born in Auckland in 1881. Her parents were, Lillie Goodisson and her husband Lawford David Evans, who were both born in Wales. Her parents had married in London and then they emigrated to New Zealand. Her father was a doctor and her mother managed a private hospital in St Kilda. Her father died in 1903 and her mother remarried in the following year.

Evans had trained as a typist and a key point in her career was in July 1917. She was appointed to be not only the secretary to the Australasian Trained Nurses Association but also the General secretary of the Australian Physiotherapy Association which was then called the Australian Massage Association. She was the first paid secretary of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association and she oversaw the Australasian Nurses' Journal. and she served during World War Two. In 1946 she retired from the Australasian Trained Nurses Association with a £300 allowance and she was made the vice-president of the newly opened A.T.N.A. House. She would have retired the year before but no one was willing to take the job at the salary Evans had been paid. A.T.N.A. House was a retirement home for nurses and she had served on the committee that had created it.

Evans died in Sydney at Rydalmere mental hospital in 1960.