The Red cross in war : woman's part in the relief of suffering / by Mary Frances Billington.

  • Billington, Mary Frances.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The Red cross in war : woman's part in the relief of suffering / by Mary Frances Billington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    hers was the spirit which created Netley, and. from thence the present system made its beginning. Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of Netley in May, 1856, and on it is recorded that the hospital was “ intended for the reception of the sick and disabled soldiers of her Army.” The actual first women nurses employed in a military hospital were at Chatham, but they were not there for long, and were soon transferred to Netley, whose first Superintendent was Mrs. Shaw-Stewart. She had been one of Miss Nightingale’s chief assistants in the Crimea, who placed it on record that “ Without her our Crimean work would have come to grief—without her judgment, her devotion, her unselfish consistent looking to the one great end, namely, the carrying out of the work as a whole.” She took up the appointment in 1861, remaining there