District Nursing Overseas

The files in U.3 have been weeded of routine correspondence. Requests for information, training, etc, from countries as diverse as Czechoslovakia, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Rhodesia which gave no details of the public health/nursing services in the country were not selected for preservation.

1898-1973

1 file

The Institute was a centre of excellence for district nursing, receiving requests from many countries for advice on setting up a service, on training personnel and on professional techniques and equipment. Information given includes detailed reviews of the place of district nursing in Britain's health service. There were very strong links with some former colonies and dominions: Queen's nurses set up the service in Malta in 1947, which affiliated to the Institute in 1952; and the Institute advised on and closely monitored the establishment of services in Jamaica, Tanganyika and Trinidad and Tobago. The records of relations with these countries include reports of the Superintendent's visits

See also H.25 for correspondence re provision of gas and air machines to the Malta Memorial District Nursing Association by the National Birthday Trust Fund

Subjects covered in this section of the catalogue

Aberdeen, Countess of U.1/2
Affiliation U.1
British Red Cross Society U.2/3
Department of Technical Co-operation U.2/2
Foot, Lady U.3/16
Fund raising (See also Appeals) U.3/16
Grenfell Association U.3/6
Jubilee Dramatic Week U.1
Ministry of Overseas Development U.2/2
Order of St John of Jerusalem U.2/3
Overseas U
Victorian Order of Nurses U.1/2

Nursing Associations, Homes and Districts in this section
DNA: District Nursing Association
NA: Nursing Association

Australia (including Tasmania) U.1/1, U.3/1
Bermuda U.3/2
British Guiana U.3/3
British Honduras U.3/4
Canada U.1/2, U.3/5-6
Denmark U.3/7
Finland U.3/8
France U.3/9
Ghana U.3/10
Greece U.3/11
Grenfell Association U.3/6
Hong Kong U.3/12
Hyacinth Lightbourne Visiting Nurse Service U.3/16
India U.3/13
Iran U.3/14
Israel U.3/15
Jamaica U.3/16, U.3/32
Kentucky Frontier Nursing Service U.3/39
Kenya U.3/17
Kuwait Oil Company U.3/18
Malaya U.3/19
Malta U.3/20-21
Mauritius U.3/22
New Zealand U.3/23
Nigeria U.3/24
Pakistan U.3/25
Phillipines U.3/26
Poland U.3/27
Portugal U.3/28
Sierra Leone U.3/29
Singapore U.3/30
South Africa U.1/1, U.3/31-32
Switzerland U.3/33
Tanganyika U.3/32, U.3/34-35
Thailand U.3/36
Trinidad and Tobago U.3/37-38
USA U.3/39
Yugoslavia U.3/40
Zambia U.3/41
Zululand U.3/32