A sketch of the life and character of Sarah Acland. Written for the nurses of the "Sarah Acland Memorial Home," Oxford / edited by Isambard Brunel.

  • Brunel, Isambard, 1838-
Date:
1894
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Credit: A sketch of the life and character of Sarah Acland. Written for the nurses of the "Sarah Acland Memorial Home," Oxford / edited by Isambard Brunel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    amongst whom was Mrs. Liddell) met shortly after her death at the suggestion of Mrs. Prestwich, the wife of the then Professor of Geology, to consider how a fitting memorial should be raised to her. It was agreed by these ladies that, as Mrs. Acland's life had been spent for others, the memorial should take the form of some practical work, and it was determined to provide a District Nurse to work gratuitously amongst the poor of Oxford (if sufficient money could be obtained), thus carrying on the nursing among the sick poor which had been originally started by Miss Eleanor Smith, and maintained by her at her own expense for seven years. Without the knowledge of Mrs. Acland's family a subscription Hst was opened, and so rapidly did the money flow in from all parts of England, and indeed from all quarters of the globe, that by January i, 1879, Nurse Gilbert, already well known and loved in the poorer parts of Oxford, began her work as the first Sarah Acland Nurse. From that day to this the Home gradually spread its area of usefulness until it became the large Institu- tion it now is—destined, we trust, to perpetuate in the way she would have most desired, the name of her whose life shall now be briefly told.
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