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In the late 1920s, the women's specialties in health care included 294,000 trained nurses, 150,000 untrained nurses, 47,000 midwives, and 550,000 other hospital workers (most of them women). [ 17 ] Sandelowski finds that by 1900 physicians were allowing nurses to routinely use the thermometer and stethoscope , and in some cases even the new X ...
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health 38.11 (1948): pp.1539-1550. online; Bordley, James, and A. McGehee Harvey. Two centuries of American medicine, 1776-1976 (1976). online; Bonner, Thomas N. The Kansas Doctor: A Century of Pioneering (Kansas UP, 1959) pp 120--171, argues Kansas was a national leader in public health in 1904 ...
Pages in category "Hospitals established in the 1920s" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
After the American Civil War, the federal government established the first system of medical care in the South, known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The government constructed 40 hospitals, employed over 120 physicians, and treated well over one million sick and dying former slaves. The hospitals were short-lived, lasting from 1865 to 1870.
167th Station Hospital, Iceland, Combined with 14th and 15th Station Hospitals and Redesignated 365th Station Hospital 6 December 1943 [26] 172nd Station Hospital, Indooroopilly, Brisbane Queensland Australia, 1942 to 1945 [ 26 ]
1920s: Culture Wars. As European economies recovered and the USA boomed in the wake of World War I, the number of Americans living in cities exceeded the number on farms for the first time.
European exploration brought hospitals to colonies in North America, Africa, and Asia. St Bartholomew's hospital in West Smithfield in London, founded in 1123, is widely considered the oldest functioning hospital today. Originally a charitable institution, currently an NHS hospital it continues to provide free care to Londoners, as it has for ...
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