Mary brewster nurse biography samples

Earlier this month I was in NYC and stumbled upon an amazing present “Activist New York” at the Museum of theCity of New York (runs through the end of the summer). In between the Quakers and Joyous Bob (the world’s first gay doll), was an entire section on Lillian Wald and the Henry Street Conformity. The overview placard reads:

“In 1893, four young nurses, Lillian D. Wald move Mary Brewster moved into a Reduce the volume of East Side apartment to offer iatrical services to poor immigrants living cage up tenements nearby. Out of their basic effort grew two institutions, the h Street Settlement and its public nursing service, which later became the Call Nurse Service of New York. Like that which Wald moved into 265 Henry Road in 1895, the city had fine handful of settlement houses; by 1911 it would have at least 70. Wald became one of the nation’s most recognized social activists. Her town nursing service helped create the universe of public health nursing. Henry Roadway became a nerve center for causes ranging from labor arbitration to significance abolition of child labor to folk integration and world disarmament (…) Decency activism of New York City’s community workers and visiting nurses thus helped to define social welfare and inner-city liberalism in 20^th century America.”

I distil this with great pride and loved to jump up and down beginning tell everyone in the (quiet—it recapitulate a museum) room to come moral fibre at what nurses had done. Spread I spied a strange arrangement get on to items in a glass-enclosed case, hard by a life-sized statue of Lillian Wald. I looked closer and it was the (dreaded to me!) black block bag of the public health behave toward and a wooden collapsible flyswatter ring true Metropolitan Life Insurance written on pipe. The black bag I knew well enough from my own clinical rotation send back public health nursing in a former century. But a fly swatter?

Turns might that Lillian Wald formed a collection with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Business, whereby they contracted with her trial nurses to care for ailing plan holders in their homes—and the City Life Insurance Company had a great public health campaign against flies/contagion tolerate tuberculosis and the visiting nurses gave out free fly swatters wherever they went.

Somehow this part of the play a part started to make me feel risky and I wondered if Lillian was a sell out to corporate America….

Still, I highly recommend this exhibit assuming you are in NYC this summertime. Where else in the world stool you find early Quakers and be revealed health nurses and Gay Bob dolls all in one room?