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Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses

GBP 70k fromGolden Jubilee in 1887. Florence Nightingale William Rathbone, Henry Ponsonby. St Katherine's Hospital. Metropolitan and National Nursing Association existed, also District Nursing associations - affliates. Royal charter from Queen Victoria in 1889. Rural Nursing Association (Elizabeth Malleson) founded in 1888 in W. of England affiliates in 1891.

Irish branches left 1925, renamed The Queen's Institute of District Nursing in 1928. Midwives Act of 1936. The Queen's Nursing Institute in 1973.

[edit] External links

• http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=4608&inst_id=20 Wellcome Trust holds QNI papers
• http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/the_university_college/history.htm Mentioned at QMUC
• http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/12/1/43 Community Development Journal paper here
• http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Florence%20Obituary.html Nightingale's obit from the Times
• http://www.jcn.co.uk/journal.asp?MonthNum=06&YearNum=1998&Type=search&ArticleID=56 Piece from JCN Online