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The
following pages are a complete edition of a nurse's handbook from
1904. We don't know how rare this is but it was plucked from a waste
bin when the hospital was closed, so it seems pretty special to
us! We've given you the whole thing over several linked pages
because I know many will want their own copy. Perhaps there's a
nurse out there who can tell us us if things have changed!
Funnily
enough a number of health service workers contacted us. Here's a
typical comment:
"Hello,
I just wanted to say thank you for showing the full version of the
Nurses's duties book of 1904. Though no longer reporting to the
medical director, not all that much as changed, except we don't
have coal fires anymore, just central heating instead which during
the winter is still turned off so 62 degrees F is not attained.
The night shift is nearly unchanged."
Swansea
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