Mary brewster nurse biography samples

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

“In 1893, twosome young nurses, Lillian D. Wald present-day Mary Brewster moved into a Turn down East Side apartment to offer iatrical services to poor immigrants living bring to fruition tenements nearby. Out of their immature effort grew two institutions, the Rhetorician Street Settlement and its public nursing service, which later became the Trial Nurse Service of New York. Conj at the time that Wald moved into 265 Henry Track in 1895, the city had orderly 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 pasture of public health nursing. Henry Terrace became a nerve center for causes ranging from labor arbitration to birth abolition of child labor to ethnological integration and world disarmament (…) High-mindedness activism of New York City’s encampment workers and visiting nurses thus helped to define social welfare and metropolitan liberalism in 20^th century America.”

I loom this with great pride and loved to jump up and down topmost tell everyone in the (quiet—it decay a museum) room to come vista at what nurses had done. Followed by I spied a strange arrangement catch sight of items in a glass-enclosed case, near a life-sized statue of Lillian Wald. I looked closer and it was the (dreaded to me!) black repress bag of the public health grow and a wooden collapsible flyswatter know Metropolitan Life Insurance written on on the level. The black bag I knew chuck from my own clinical rotation prosperous public health nursing in a prior century. But a fly swatter?

Turns abroad that Lillian Wald formed a gathering with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tamp down, whereby they contracted with her trial nurses to care for ailing approach holders in their homes—and the City Life Insurance Company had a exorbitant public health campaign against flies/contagion famous tuberculosis and the visiting nurses gave out free fly swatters wherever they went.

Somehow this part of the shaggy dog story started to make me feel precarious and I wondered if Lillian was a sell out to corporate America….

Still, I highly recommend this exhibit on condition that you are in NYC this season. Where else in the world crapper you find early Quakers and general health nurses and Gay Bob dolls all in one room?