Nursing & Midwifery
Dame Mary Rosalind Paget, 1855-1948
Display No. 42
Dame Mary Rosalind Paget was a campaigner for midwife registration and was the first superintendent of the Queen’s Jubilee Institute for District Nursing, later to become the Queen’s Nursing Institute.
She was the great-granddaughter of William Rathbone and a keen supporter of women’s suffrage; in July 1908, she led 20 members in a suffrage procession under a banner dedicated to Florence Nightingale.
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Nightingale is respected worldwide for her pioneering role in developing the nursing profession, her statistical work, and her evidence-based approach to healthcare. In honour of her bicentenary the World Health Organisation have named 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
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