Nineteenth-Century Nurses and Midwives in Three Canadian Cities, 1861-1891

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Author/collaborator
Title
Nineteenth-Century Nurses and Midwives in Three Canadian Cities, 1861-1891
Abstract
The author focuses on nurses and midwives in Montreal, Halifax, and Saint John in the decades leading up to the introduction of trained nurses. Self-employed (private) nurses are compared with those in hospitals. Overwhelmingly working-class women, and frequently widows, the nurses were not formally trained, though some midwives were. In 1861, most Montreal nurses listed were Anglophones, and predominately Irish but, by 1891, French Canadians represented about one third of the number though the author believes that they were likely underreported.
Publication
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/Société canadienne dʼhistoire de la médecine
Volume
Vol. 30
Issue
no. 1
Pages
189-208
Date
2013
Language
en
Citation
Young, Judith. “Nineteenth-Century Nurses and Midwives in Three Canadian Cities, 1861-1891.” Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/Société canadienne dʼhistoire de la médecine Vol. 30, no. 1 (2013): 189–208.
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