Person    | Female  Born 4/1/1855  Died 19/8/1948

Dame Rosalind Paget

Categories: Medicine

Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the first superintendent, and later inspector general, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospital. 

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Dame Rosalind Paget

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Rosalind Paget and Zepherina Veitch

The plaque gives 1739 as the foundation date but sources give 1749.

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