Isla Stewart

Standard Name: Stewart, Isla

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Isla Stewart began her nursing career at the age of twenty-three as a probationer at the Nightingale Training School .

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

Isla Stewart assumed the post of matron at the smallpox camps in Darenth near Dartford, Kent.

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

59-60

White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.

69-70

Isla Stewart became the Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital .

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

Isla Stewart established the Matrons' Council , an organization devoted to attaining a register of nurses. She also served as its president.

Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.

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McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

4, 65

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