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Alberta Department of Health. District Nursing Service fonds
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30 cm of textual records. -- 2 photograph albums.
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At the end of World War I the District Nursing Service was established as part of the Public Health Branch of the Alberta Department of Health. The nurses began their work in isolated rural communities in 1919. A community which was 50 to 100 miles away from any other medical service could apply to the government for a resident district nurse. A local committee supervised the nurse's duties and the community provided accommodation for the nurse, an office and a waiting room. Transportation was provided by the patients' families if the nurse had to travel out of town. The Public Health Branch maintained close contact with both the nurse and the local committee. The Service was discontinued in the 1970s after the establishment of Medicare.
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The fonds consists of records relating to District Health Nursing in Alberta and includes 2 photograph albums; transcripts of radio programs by Kate Brighty Colley, who became a District Health Nurse in 1919 and began her CKUA broadcasts in the 1930s, and Blanche Emerson, who established child welfare clinics in 4 Alberta cities; articles written by municipal nurses (1920-1979); reports of the District Nursing Branch; The History of the Department of Public Health of Alberta (1935); Guide for the Public Health Nurse: the Infant and Preschool Child (1972); and study documents and reports of the Federal- Provincial Public Health Nursing Conference (1961, 1963, 1965).
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The records were transferred from the Edmonton office of Alberta Community Health to the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Archives and Museum by Diane McHutchion in 1991.
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Record No. 91.41<br><br>