The house on Henry Street / by Lillian D. Wald ; with illustrations from etchings and drawings by Abraham Phillips and from photographs.

Lillian Wald

Date:: 1915

Credit: The house on Henry Street / by Lillian D. Wald ; with illustrations from etchings and drawings by Abraham Phillips and from photographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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And the possibility of improvement seemed, when my inexperience was startled into thought, the more remote because of the dumb acceptance of these conditions by the East Side itself. Like the rest of the world I had known little of it, when friends of a philan¬ thropic institution asked me to do something for that quarter. Remembering the families who came to visit patients in the wards, I outlined a course of instruction in home nursing adapted to their needs, and gave it in an old building in Henry Street, then used as a technical school and now part of the settlement. Henry Street then as now was the center of a dense industrial popula¬ tion.

The house on Henry Street / by Lillian D. Wald ; with illustrations from etchings and drawings by Abraham Phillips and from photographs.

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