Physical description

Stapled booklet with black cover. Title and authors name are printed in white on the front cover along with phograph of a sculpture of two hands reaching towards each other ['hands' by Henry Moore]

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'Colonel A.M. Sage, CBE, RRC, FNM, / FCNA(Hon.) / Matron in Chief, AANS 1943-1952' [Handwritten in blue ink at the top of page 2]
'B32' [Handwritten in pencil on the first page]
'RETURNED NURSES CLUB OF VICTORIA / SUB BRANCH R.S.L.' [Stamped in purple ink at the bottom of the first page]
'B32' [Written in red texta on a sticker that is wrapped around the lower part of the spine]

Summary

This is a short book about nurses, the enduring race of women into whose helping handsnwe all of us inevitably fall, from time to time, from birth to death. How could we do without them? (taken from the foreward, page 3)