Visiting Nurse
This file appears in: Indianapolis Flower Mission
A district nurse at the Indianapolis City Hospital dispensary, ca. 1907. The first public health nurse in the city, the district nurse would make house calls at the behest of the Flower Mission administrators and the City Dispensary physicians.
Image courtesy of IUPUI University Library Special Collections and Archives.
This file appears in: Indianapolis Flower Mission
Indianapolis Flower Mission
A women’s charity organization, the Indianapolis Flower Mission served the sick poor of the Circle City for over one hundred years. Part of a national movement, the charity began in 1876 when Alice Wright, the daughter of a prominent railroad…