1895: District nurse Jenny Wolfe in Gotherington, Gloucestershire Photograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute1906: Sussex County Nursing Association Photograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute1949: District nurse Jeal at an infant welfare clinic. The work of district nurses was photographed to document the new national health servicePhotograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute
1949: Queen's nurse Nora Parsons at an infant welfare clinic. The term Queen's nurse, used until 1968, was more or less synonymous with district nurse and denoted that the nurse had been trained by the Queen's Nursing InstitutePhotograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute1949: District nurse Jeal on a home visit attending to a tonsilitis patient. Nurses Jeal and Parsons also starred in a 1952 film called District Nurse made by the COI for showing overseasPhotograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute1949: District nurse Jeal on a rehabilitation visit to a paralysed patientPhotograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute1949: A child with diptheria having a trachetomy in a farmhouse kitchen, from a film made by the Queen's Nursing Institute called Friend of the Family. The QNI is putting together a DVD of archive films made between 1930 and 1970, which will be available for sale from the end of February Photograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute1959: A district nurse in Scotland using a car to access a remote spot near Loch Fyne, Argyll and ButePhotograph: Crown Copyright/Queen's Nursing Institute1960s: A nurse on a rural visit, thought to be on Exmoor Photograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute2005: District nurses in BradfordPhotograph: Queen's Nursing Institute/Queen's Nursing Institute
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