Armstrong] that introduced public nursing to Manitoba. Initially, five public health nurses were employed; by 1922 there were 53. During the influenza epidemic that followed World War I

view to his later ordination, and gave him permission to marry before leaving. His wife, Marion Goodwin, was well prepared for the mission field: she was a deaconess and a trained nurse who had served in

science expert, public health nurse Margaret Craig, who came to Botwood and nearby communities to advise the health clubs. From his first entry into

, the promotion of nurses’ training, and the stricter enforcement of pasteurization, vaccination, and sanitation during epidemics. Hanna’s enormous

Nurses. During her tenure, the council established a training home for nurses in the city and formed a chapter of the VON. She served as the chapter’s secretary from 1898 to 1901 and as president from 1902

the end of his life. To provide adequate theoretical and practical training for the staff who worked in the operating room, he had helped found a school for nurses at Notre-Dame Hospital in 1897. His

again in Fort Macleod and then, in 1907, he settled in Edmonton. He seems to have had domestic problems with his wife – in 1921 he would marry a nurse from Beaumont, Alta

established in 1919 to allow mothers to tour the exhibits while their infants were watched by trained nurses. Cummings was also on the executives of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Toronto

on the first of these boards in 1900–1. In the late 1890s she and her husband had begun to play important roles in the Montreal branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, she as chair of the

to be a favourite with the local practical nurses and lay midwives, “who delighted to tell of his velvety hands

serve as his attorney in dealings with Congress. The Ursulines did the same in order to obtain reimbursement for the expenses incurring in nursing the American soldiers. Badeaux’s efforts met with no

School of Nursing (Saint John, N.B., 1955). J. W. Lawrence, “The medical men of St. John in its first half century,” N.B. Hist. Soc., Coll., I (1894), 298–99.

, delivered by request at the St. John Mechanics’ Institute, on Feb. 4th, 1884 ([Saint John?, 1884?]); An address delivered at the opening of the training school for nurses

, nurses and practitioners of medicine (London, 1904), 175–76, 369. G. W. Spragge, “The Trinity Medical School,” Ont. Hist., LVIII (1966), 63–98.

Canadian Scottish), which went to England the next month. Before the conflict would end, all of Henry Bell-Irving’s six sons were in the armed forces and two of his four daughters served as nurses

Tracey, who was nursing a sick child in her flat on nearby Pleasant Street, came to Canning’s for a little brandy to relieve the small one’s discomfort. As she was entering the tavern by the back door she

-Hyacinthe, Jean-Charles Prince*, suggested that she join a teaching or nursing community, but she did not feel that was where her calling lay

them looked after according to the doctors’ instructions, maintain quiet and order in the wards, and assign tasks to the sisters responsible for nursing care

September 1866, while nursing a woman ill from typhoid fever, he caught the disease and died from it on 2 October. He had just made up his mind to enter the Order of Preachers

, Dorothy had become on her return the first nurse and a guiding light at the Jewish Dispensary, set up on Elizabeth Street by the Hebrew Ladies’ Maternity Aid and Child Welfare Society. On Henry’s death she