biography
pronunciation:
[wawld]
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| female
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| (1867–1940)
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| Public-health nurse and settlement leader, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Among the greatest of a generation of outstanding social workers, she was a gifted fundraiser, a pacifist, and a child-welfare activist, and is best known as a founder of public-health nursing and related services through establishment of the Nurses' Settlement at 265 Henry Street, New York City (1895). She created the first public-school nursing programme in the USA (1902), assisted in establishing a nursing programme for industrial policyholders by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, and was a prime mover (1910) in the establishment of a nursing and health department at Teachers College of Columbia University. At her initiative, the American Red Cross established the precursor to the Town and Country Nursing Service (1912). She was the first president and one of the founders of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing (1912). Equally influential in social service, by 1913 her Henry Street Visiting Nurses Service had a staff of 92, making 200 000 visits annually, along with first-aid stations and convalescent facilities. Concerned for children, she was a founder of the National Child Labor Council (1904). Optimistic, warm, and unselfconsciously tolerant, she is also known for her realistic understanding of the complexities of community life. |
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