Photo: A nurse visits a sick patient, year unknown (early 20th c)Photo: Saving time by climbing over
Photo: A nurse visits a sick patient, year unknown (early 20th c)Photo: Saving time by climbing over tenement rooftops, 1910Lilliam Wald, founder of Hull House, a settlement house on the Lower East Side of New York City that provided services to immigrants in the area, began an experimental visiting nurse service in 1909, sponsored by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Nurses would pay house calls on ill patients, primarily poor immigrants clustered in Lower East Side tenements, who were either too sick, too embarrassed, or too lacking in money to go to the hospital. The nurses would be paid 50 cents per visit (about 12 dollars in today’s currency), and would also offer impromptu lessons on hygiene and other preventative disease measures. The Visiting Nurse Association became an enormous success, and in the 1940s separated from Hull House to form the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, which is still in operation today. [x][x] -- source link
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