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Title: A history of nursing: the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, M. Adelaide (Mary Adelaide), 1858-1948 Dock, Lavinia L., 1858-1956 Internet Archive (Firm)
Subjects: Nursing
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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er,after his visit to the Dominion, in 1910. The nursingreserve will be under civil control and organised bythe Inspector-General of Hospitals. There was aprevious attempt to form a reserve, and a Matron -in-Chief, Mrs. Janet Gillies, formerly Nursing SisterSpeed during the South African War, was appointedto the position; but the reserve was not formed andshe has now retired. A new Matron-in-Chief is tobe chosen immediately and the appointments ofMatrons, Sisters, and nurses will follow. Africa.—Africa is known as the Dark Continent,but darkness is giving place to dawn, and dawnwith tropical rapidity to broad daylight. A powerfulfactor in this development is the trained nurse, who,following the flag, has found her way to the heart ofthe continent, so that in Uganda, on the shores of theVictoria Nyanza, there is now a hospital having athree years certificated nurse as Matron, and on theisland of Likoma, on Lake Nyassa, there is a well-appointed hospital nursed by certificated British
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