Physical description

Book bound with blue material. Title and author stamped in gilt on spine. AHNL badge stamped in gilt on front cover
Dust jacket has title and author on both front and spine, photos of nurses on front and back. Contains photos.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by" previous catalogue number handwritten in ink. At bottom right of front end-age there is a On title page there is a handwritten dedication 'To Audrey/ best wishes from/ Helen Paterson/ 20th February 1996' Audrey Morwick written at top right of this page. Fixed to page after front end page is a coloured photograph of Audrey Morwick and Helen Paterson, underneath is a newspaper cutting of an illustration of the Alfred Hospital 1871. On the opposite page is a review of the book published in 'Ancestor, Vol 23, No 3

Summary

History of the Alfred nurses from the establishment of the Alfred hospital in 1871, the beginning of nurse training in 1880 revealing the hardships, pleasures and intrigues shared by Alfred nurses