Physical description

Illustrated book with white binding and black print. Tile and author's name on front cover and spine. Also on the front cover is an image of the AHNL badge (red patte cross suriunded by words 'Alfred Hospital Nurses League' in gilt on a white circular background. Under this is a banner with the word ubi non est mulier ibi ingemiscit ager (where woman is not there the sick man groaneth, in gilt letterring on a dark blue background

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Inside the front cover there is a coloured Donation sticker: AHNL badge, under which are printed the words 'This book was donated to the AHNL Inc-Nursing Archives by' Alfred Hospital Nurses League October 2018 (hand writeten in black ink

Summary

A history of the Alfred Hospital Nurses League (AHNL) On October 18 1918, Greta Lyons, 'on behalf of present and past trainees' asked the Alfred Hospital's Manager's Committee for permission to start the AHNL. Permission was granted, and the first meeting was held on November 25, 1918.