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Catalogue description Queen's Institute of District Nursing: Records
| Reference: | PRO 30/63 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Queen's Institute of District Nursing: Records |
| Description: |
This collection of documents covers the supervision of county and district nursing associations. The papers include correspondence, questionnaires and preliminary and annual reports by inspectors of the Queens Institute of Distrtict Nursing. |
| Date: | 1850-1949 |
| Arrangement: |
The records are arranged alphabetically under counties. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Not Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Queen Victoria Institute of District Nursing, 1889-1925 Queens Institute of District Nursing, 1925- |
| Physical description: | 597 file(s) |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 1964 |
| Selection and destruction information: | Papers from all associations have been preserved to 1914; thereafter, only county and selected urban and rural areas are represented. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Queen Victoria Institute of District Nursing, which grew out of William Rathbone's work in Liverpool in the 1860's, was granted the Royal Charter in September 1889. In 1925 its name was changed to the Queen's Institute of District Nursing when Queen Mary became its patron From the first it fulfilled two main functions (i) the training of district nurses (ii) the supervision of county and district nursing associations. |
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