wardsmaid

plural wardsmaids

1. A woman who manages a hospital ward.

   She was a wardsmaid at the Point Fortin Hospital for many years until she retired.

   2020 October 16, Marshelle Haseley, “RExTT launches pink mask campaign for breast cancer awareness”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

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   Chronic and quiet patients are just those who render most assistance in carrying on the daily routine of house-cleaning and other work in the asylum; and if they are removed it will be necessary in most cases to hire wardsmaids of a class much below that of the ordinary asylum attendant or nurse to replace them.

   1877 January, The Journal of Mental Science, volume 22, page 597

   There was plenty to remember, but just then a trolley rattled in, pushed by a wiry wardsmaid in a pink uniform.

   2008, Rose Moxham, Teeth Marks, page 7