Throughout her career, Moorehead skillfully portrayed puritanical matrons, neurotic spinsters, possessive mothers, and comical secretaries. Unmarried girls, matrons, as well as the Vestal virgins all wore them. She was examined by ten matrons and two midwives who found her hymen intact. Many of the trainees went on to be matrons or superintendents of nursing. One group were bureaucrats, another who were electors and a last of matrons. His decisions could be and sometimes were overruled by the "sachems" and clan matrons. Her public priesthood was reserved to respectable matrons, be they married, divorced or widowed. Strict seclusion and the veiling of matrons were also customary in ancient Greece. These female officers were often known as "police matrons". The well-clothed matrons are shown performing rites. The veiling of matrons was also customary in ancient Greece. She and the other matrons can inflict injuries on dancers whenever and wherever they want. This earns her the animosity of the hospital's Matrons, who punish her severely. She was admitted into the Iroquois Council of Matrons. Many areas of the UK now employ Community Matrons.