A Hundred Years of District Nursing

Originally published in 1960, this is a story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteeth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication. It records how 'our nurse' had been and still was a familiar and beloved figure in busy cities and remote rural areas throughout the UK.

At the time of publication Mary Stocks (later Baroness Stocks) was a distinguished economist and broadcaster; she had sat on a number of government committees and had been a member of the BBC's General Advisory Council since 1952.

Preface. 1. Introductory 2. Some Pioneer Ventures 3. The Liverpool Experiment 4. London 5. The Queen's Jubilee Fund 6. The Queen's Institute's Nurses 7. The Institute's Affiliates 8. Financial Crisis 9. The New Century 10. The Wider World 11. Between Two Wars: The Organization 12. Between Two Wars: The Nurses 13. The Coming of the National Health Service 14. Overseas 15. The Battle for Training 16. Then and Now 17. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.