(BQ) Part 1 book “Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain” has contents: Historical trajectories - Background, c. 1850–1919; what became of the lady - the interwar period, 1919–1939; war to welfare state 1939–1948,… and other contents.
Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine EDITED BY JOSEPH MELLING, University of Exeter AND ANNE BORSAY, University of Wales, Swansea, UK Nutrition in Britain Science, Scientists and Politics in the Twentieth Century Edited by David F Smith Race, Science and Medicine, 1700–1960 Edited by Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris Migrants, Minorities and Health Historical and Contemporary Studies Edited by Lara Marks and Michael Worboys Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800–1914 Edited by Bill Forsythe and Joseph Melling From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities Edited by David Wright and Anne Digby 10 Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century International and Comparative Perspectives Edited by David F Smith and Jim Phillips Midwives, Society and Childbirth Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period Edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe Edited by Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra, Hilary Maarland and Has de Waardt Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500–1700 Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham The Locus of Care Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare since Antiquity Edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith 11 Sex, Sin and Suffering Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870 Edited by Roger Davidson and Lesley A Hall 12 The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 New Perspectives Edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray 13 Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800–2000 Edited by Waltraud Ernst 14 Innovations in Health and Medicine Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century Edited by Jenny Stanton 15 Contagion Historical and Cultural Studies Edited by Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker 24 Financing Medicine The British Experience since 1750 Edited by Martin Gorsky and Sally Sheard 16 Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600–2000 Edited by Steve Sturdy 25 Social Histories of Disability and Deformity Edited by David M Turner and Kevin Stagg 17 Medicine and Colonial Identity Edited by Mary P Sutphen and Bridie Andrews 18 New Directions in Nursing History Edited by Barbara E Mortimer and Susan McGann 19 Medicine, the Market and Mass Media Producing Health in the Twentieth Century Edited by Virginia Berridge and Kelly Loughlin 20 The Politics of Madness The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914 Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe 21 The Risks of Medical Innovation Risk Perception and Assessment in Historical Context Edited by Thomas Schlich and Ulrich Tröhler 22 Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850 Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom Edited by Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling 23 Britain and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic A Dark Epilogue Niall Johnson 26 Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity Edited by Waltraud Ernst 27 Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context Edited by Leslie Topp, James E Moran and Jonathan Andrews 28 Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 Leonard Smith 29 Women and Smoking Since 1890 Rosemary Elliot 30 Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain Helen M Sweet with Rona Dougall Also available in Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine series: Reassessing Foucault Power, Medicine and the Body Edited by Colin Jones and Roy Porter Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain Helen M Sweet with Rona Dougall New York London First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007 “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2008 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Sweet, Helen M Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain / Helen M Sweet with Rona Dougall p cm —(Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 30) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-0-415-95634-5 (hardback : alk paper) Community health nursing—Great Britain—History—20th century Primary health care—Great Britain—History—20th century I Dougall, Rona II Title III Series [DNLM: Community Health Nursing—history—Great Britain History, 20th Century—Great Britain Primary Health Care—history—Great Britain WY 11 FA1 S974c 2007] RT98.S94 2007 610.73'430941—dc22 ISBN 0-203-93372-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-95634-X (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-93372-9 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-95634-5 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-93372-5 (ebk) 2007015921 Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Glossary and Conventions Introduction ix xi xiii xv PART I The History of District Nursing 15 Historical Trajectories: Background, c 1850–1919 17 What Became of the Lady? The Interwar period, 1919–1939 35 War to Welfare State, 1939–1948 63 Changing Places, 1948–1979 81 PART II Themes and Issues: The District Nurse and the Changing World of Primary Health Care 105 Town Nurse, Country Nurse: District Nursing Landscape 107 Technology, Treatment, and TLC 135 Generalists and Generals: District Nursing Professionalisation 151 viii Contents Language of Caring: Care and Nurses’ Lives 165 Portraits of a District Nurse 187 10 Discussion and Conclusion 201 Endnotes Sources and Bibliography Index 215 245 261 List of Figures Figure 1.1 Nurse Wolfe of Gotherington, Somerset 25 Figure 1.2 Distribution graph of district nursing associations 1915 (England and Wales) 32 Cooperating in being: Health visitor meeting with district nurse 41 Figure 2.2 District nurse (no date, but pre-1943) 45 Figure 2.3 Income sources of district nursing associations (England and Wales) 1915–1925 52 Numbers of district nurses, England and Wales, 1919–1939 65 Plymouth Queen’s Nurses Cantrill and McCarthy picking their way over the debris from a bomb raid to the house of a patient 68 Figure 2.1 Figure 3.1 Figure 3.2 Figure 5.1 1960s recruitment leaflet, front cover 108 Figure 5.2 Superintendent and assistant superintendent and (Queen’s) district nurses at the nurses’ home in Cardiff (1926) 111 Figure 5.3 Maes-yr-Haf, opened Spring 1927 129 Figure 6.1 District nurse preparing her bag for the day’s visits 136 Figure 6.2 Equipment required for a dressing and giving an insulin injection, c 1948 137 Equipment required for a dressing and giving an insulin injection after introduction of CSSD and disposables 138 Figure 6.4 Mrs Grey, rural village nurse-midwife, c 1905 143 Figure 6.5 Nurse Radburn on her motor scooter 144 Figure 6.3 ... Moran and Jonathan Andrews 28 Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 17 50 18 30 Leonard Smith 29 Women and Smoking Since 18 90 Rosemary Elliot 30 Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century. .. as individuals The title of Allan and Jolley’s book, Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Since 19 00, recognises individual nursing Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare identifications and. .. Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 18 50 Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom Edited by Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling 23 Britain and the 19 18 19 In uenza Pandemic A