Hannah McLeod

Hannah McLeod (25 August 1857– 24 October 1912) was an Australian hospital matron, nurse and midwife.

Biography McLeod was born in 1857 in Sydney, New South Wales Her parents were Eleanor Fowler (born Phillips) and her husband William Browne McLeod and she was their fourth child. Eleanor and William were both born in Britain and William was a master mariner. She was a member of Australasian Trained Nurses' Association In 1907, she testified before the New South Wales Parliament.

McLeod wrote a section on "The Early Rearing and Handling of Children" in Hannah Rankin's Handbook of Domestic Science.

McLeod died from pneumonia in October 1912. It was said that she had tended to 40,000 women.