Event at the Usher Hall with service professions

Category

Library Item

Item no

32468

Title

Event at the Usher Hall with service professions

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1935

Size

21.5 x 16.7cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image appeared in the Evening Dispatch newspaper.

An unknown event, but participants made up of nurses, health visitors, soldiers, police, firemen and judges.

This image comes from a photograph album donated to Edinburgh Libraries covering the nursing career of Miss Mary Morag Bird Cunningham. Mary was born in 1888 and at the age of 22 began training at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (RIE) as a nurse. Once qualified in 1915 she moved to the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital (ERMH) and obviously found her calling in the care of children. In 1917 she became one of Edinburgh's first health visitors as part of the introduction of Edinburgh's Child Welfare Scheme. The album contains early photographs of the RIE and ERMH as well as images of child health care clinics that she worked in during the 1930s at Portobello and Prestonfield.

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