The District Nurse

An illustrated history of the Queen’s Nursing institute in the United Kingdom, one of the oldest charitable nursing organizations. For 150 years, up and down the country, from large cities to rural areas and the remotest islands and highlands, district nurses have been visiting the sick in their own homes. Here they have provided healthcare, and given moral support and advice to people of all ages the length and breadth of Britain. Follow the story of how, in the 1860s, the Liverpool philanthrop