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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...the Crown Princess (the late Empress Frederick), and her daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, aided in the work. Under the protection of the Red Cross women nurses were employed more freely in the vicinity of battlefields than they had ever been before. Branch societies were started throughout the German States, each working independently in time of peace, but all owing obedience to the central committee in Berlin in time of war. In 1883 the German societies were in a position to place at the service of the central committee six hundred female and one hundred and twenty male nurses, besides a large number of trained hospital attendants. France, too, which was the first state to sign the Convention of Geneva, developed a good system of Red Cross work, which materially aided the country in its reverses. After 1870 the French society did not relax its efforts. It paid great attention to the improvement of ambulance material, and established schools in Paris and other towns for the instruction of brancardiers and nurses. The Russian society was also active in pioneer work, and during the wars in the Balkan provinces, 1876-78, its personnel included five hundred sisters of mercy and five hundred male nurses. An important outcome of the British National Aid or Red Cross Society was the utilization of the income arising from the large balance left in its exchequer after the Franco-German war, in the training of "female nurses " at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. It was not until the outbreak of the South African war that the British Red Cross Society was called upon to extensively deal with work on behalf of our own soldiers. In January, 1899, a new body, the Central British Red Cross Council, was, with the approval of the War...

Excerpt from The History of Nursing in the British Empire Being but a Simple scribe, with no claim to belong to the profession of nursing, my endeavour has been to take a brief for the history of the movement, unbiassed by any school or faction, and chie y intent on following the main stream of facts and incidents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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