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Instructive District Nursing Association (Boston, Mass.). Instructive District Nursing Association Records, 1912-1926, 1914-1918.

Title: Instructive District Nursing Association Records, 1912-1926, 1914-1918.

The Community Health Association, first named the Boston Instructive District Nursing Association (IDNA), was founded in 1886 and incorporated in 1888. The IDNA cared for the sick in the patients' homes and instructed the ill and their families on how to prevent future illness. In 1922 the IDNA reorganized and combind its work with the Baby Hygiene Association and changed its name to the Community Health Association. Materials in the collection include correspondence, budgets, minutes, annual reports, course materials from the Simmons College School of Public Health Nursing and a photograph. Major correspondents include Mary Beard, Jeffrey Brackett, Mary Adelaide Nutting, Curtis Morrison Hilliard and Anne Hervey Strong.

ArchivalResource: 1 manuscript container (5 linear in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25028096 View

Instructive District Nursing Association (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1912-1926 (bulk 1914-1918).

Title: Records, 1912-1926 (bulk 1914-1918).

Chiefly correspondence; together with budgets, minutes, annual reports and course materials of Simmons College School of Public Health Nursing, and other records, relating to Simmons College and a joint program in public health nursing and the development of public health nursing. Correspondents include Mary Beard, Jeffrey Richardson Brackett, Mary Adelaide Nutting, and Anne Hervey Strong.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 in. (ca. 50 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28418528 View