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Queen's Institute of District Nursing: Records
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/63
What's it about?
PRO 30/63
This collection of documents covers the supervision of county and district nursing associations. The papers include correspondence, questionnaires and preliminary and annual reports by inspectors of the Queens Institute of Distrtict Nursing.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PRO 30/63
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Title (The name of the record)
- Queen's Institute of District Nursing: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1850-1949
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Description (What the record is about)
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This collection of documents covers the supervision of county and district nursing associations. The papers include correspondence, questionnaires and preliminary and annual reports by inspectors of the Queens Institute of Distrtict Nursing.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records are arranged alphabetically under counties.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Queen Victoria Institute of District Nursing, 1889-1925
- Queens Institute of District Nursing, 1925-1925
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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597 file(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1964
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Nursing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Papers from all associations have been preserved to 1914; thereafter, only county and selected urban and rural areas are represented.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Queen Victoria Institute of District Nursing, which grew out of William Rathbone's work in Liverpool in the 1860's, was granted the Royal Charter in September 1889. In 1925 its name was changed to the Queen's Institute of District Nursing when Queen Mary became its patron
From the first it fulfilled two main functions (i) the training of district nurses (ii) the supervision of county and district nursing associations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12009/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: PRO
Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts
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Queen's Institute of District Nursing: Records
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