A Hundred Years of District Nursing

Mary Stocks

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Routledge
01 November 2024

British & Irish history; History of medicine; Community nursing

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication. Mrs Stocks records how ‘our nurse’ had been and still was a familiar and beloved figure in busy cities and remote rural areas throughout the United Kingdom and was rapidly assuming a similar position in many other parts of the world.

William Rathbone of Liverpool early recognized the need for a central organization to recruit and train district nurses and became the father of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses, or as it became, the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing (now Queen’s Institute of Nursing). The background of its formation gives a fascinating glimpse of different classes of Victorian England. Mrs Stocks describes how Queen Victoria, the Institute’s first Patron, conveyed her wishes to the ‘top people’ who devised and organized the service with the inflexible guidance of Florence Nightingale. At the other end of the scale, she tells of some of the appalling conditions found in the homes by the pioneer nurses. She describes how the Queen’s Institute grew from strength to strength in spite of buffeting by high political winds, until at the time it played an important part in preserving the nation’s health. Today it is a registered charity dedicated to improving the nursing care of people in the home and community.

By: Mary Stocks
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781032894102
ISBN 10: 1032894105
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Adult education , Primary , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface. 1. Introductory 2. Some Pioneer Ventures 3. The Liverpool Experiment 4. London 5. The Queen’s Jubilee Fund 6. The Queen’s Institute’s Nurses 7. The Institute’s Affiliates 8. Financial Crisis 9. The New Century 10. The Wider World 11. Between Two Wars: The Organization 12. Between Two Wars: The Nurses 13. The Coming of the National Health Service 14. Overseas 15. The Battle for Training 16. Then and Now 17. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

At the time of publication Mary Stocks (later Baroness Stocks) was a distinguished economist and broadcaster; she had sat on a number of government committees and had been a member of the BBC’s General Advisory Council since 1952.

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A Hundred Years of District Nursing

Mary Stocks

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