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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    ory of their only son, who had died in a military hospital from a gunshot wound, and whose sufferings had been greatly increased by bad nursing. Dr. Hamilton wrote: “This sum, sent to ‘relieve those who suffer,’ came at a moment when the necessity of having a nurse to visit the sick poor had made itself felt with special force at the Protestant Hospi- tal. ” The first nurse appointed was Mile. Amory, one of the Protestant graduates, and the work has been carried on with the most signal success as an extension of the dispensary service of the hospital. From the first it has been made a combination of good nursing with that friendly care for the uplift of the individuals and families which has come to be known as social service, and economic and indus- trial conditions have been faithfully recorded in the nurse’s note-book along with the nursing notes. In January, 1912, through the persistent efforts of Dr. Lande, the first public school nurse in Bordeaux was placed under the city government, to make a demonstration of her usefulness. Mile. Rolland was entrusted with the care of 2000 children in the largest public schools in a crowded quarter and Dr. Lande undertook to relieve the administration of the cost of the experiment. In October, 1906, the journal of the Bordeaux nurses and their branches was founded. It appears monthly in a blue cover and is called La Garde-Malade Hospitaliere {La Neurse Franqaise), with the sub-title Organe des Ecoles de Gardes-Malades, Systeme Florence Nightingale. Animated controversies have arisen over Dr. Hamilton’s bold introduction of a new word into the French language, some regarding “Neurse”