Jailed three times, Nurse Elizabeth Taylor became notorious for her role in the abominable trade of procuring abortions for Melbourne women in the late 1800s. And she wasn't the only one.
In Spring, 1883, a stranger came to Eliza Waddilove's house at the top end of King Street in Melbourne to tell her that her daughter was dead.The stranger, who introduced herself as Nurse Taylor, urged Mrs Waddilove to immediately send her husband to buy a coffin.
Her child — 15-year-old Florence — had worked for 18 months as a barmaid at what is now Flinders Street Station. They could only find a procession of people with vague recollections of the girl's movements and half-explanations as to how she ended up in the care of a nurse in Richmond when she was supposed to be on vacation at St Kilda.
Elizabeth Taylor was a stout, fierce-looking woman from Manchester, missing two joints on her right-hand index finger."Mrs Taylor, practical MIDWIFE and NURSE. Ladies consulted from ten to two. 1 Waxman's cottages, off Bridge Rd, Richmond."
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