Physical description

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a purple cover with full title and authors name in gold on front, authors name and abbreviated title in gold on spine. Dust jacket is cream in colour, with authors name and full title printed in purple ink on front. Authors name and abbreviated title printed in purple ink on spine. Also on front cover is a painting by Kevin Jopson of the entrance to Vindin House (nurses' home at Royal North Shore Hospital)

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At the top right of the front-end page 'E.June Allen 1988" is written in blue ink. Below this 'Alfred Hospital Nurses League' is stamped in black ink. leow this stamp is a small white sticker on which the previous catalogue number is written in blue ink

Summary

This book is an account of the development of nursing practice as the original North Shore cottage hospital progressed to becoming one of the major medical institutions of Australia