Volume 3

A history of nursing : from the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years / edited, and in part written, by Lavinia L. Dock.

  • Dock, Lavinia L., 1858-1956.
Date:
[1912], ©1912
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Credit: A history of nursing : from the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years / edited, and in part written, by Lavinia L. Dock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Committee of Irish Matrons; A Committee of Swedish Nurses; The Danish Nurses’ Association; Baroness Sophie Mannerheim, Lady Superintendent, Surgical Hospital, Helsingfors, Finland; Mrs. M. Louise Lyman, Ottawa, Canada; Miss Alice R. Macdonald, Sister, Melbourne Hospital, Australia; Miss Ellen J. Gould, Matron, Private Hospital, Australia; Miss Hester Maclean, Assistant Inspector of Hospitals and Deputy Registrar of Nurses under the government of New Zealand; Miss Mabel McCal- mont, late Chief Division of Hospital Construction and Equipment, Bureau of Health, Philippine Is- lands; and Miss M. Eugenie Hibbard, Department of Health, Havana, Cuba. A special contributor to the Irish material was Dr. Kirkpatrick of Dublin, who placed his own his- torical studies at our disposal, while Father Rushe^ author of A Second Thehaid took trouble to supply helpful references. Our sorrow at the loss of Mrs. Kildare Treacy lends peculiar importance to her un- failing interest in the book. Up to the time of her last illness she was untiring in her correspondence in behalf of the Irish chapter. Especial thanks are also due to the Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, for the loan of her own reports of her work in India, and to Mrs. Etha Butcher Klosz, editor of the Nurses Journal of India, for a specially laborious piece of work in collecting material on nursing in that country. The data on registration in the United States have been supplied by the officers of the State Societies of Nurses, while Miss Palmer, editor of the American Journal of Nursing, placed at our disposal her own