List of Plates. Foreword William Rathbone. Acknowledgements. Preface. New Preface to the Reissue. 1. Nursing the Sick Poor at Home Before 1887 2. Founding the Victoria Jubilee Institute 3. A New Chapter in District Nursing 4. Rural District Nursing 5. The Queen’s Nurses at the Beginning of the Century 6. District Nursing: Charity or Public Service? 7. The World We Have Lost 8. The Coming of the National Health Service 9. Postwar Policies for District Nursing 10. The Old Order Changeth 11. The Queen’s Nursing Institute Today 12. Epilogue. Select Bibliography. Appendix. Index.
Biography
Monica E. Baly (1914–1998) Centenary Fellow of The Queen’s Nursing Institute, was an English nurse, historian of nursing, and an advocate for social change. A world authority on Florence Nightingale, Baly battled throughout her life to improve nurses' training and conditions. She made her name in 1970 as an organiser of the "Raising the Roof" campaign which resulted in an unprecedented 22 percent pay award for nurses.
