Parade of health visitors heading for St Giles Kirk

Category

Library Item

Item no

32474

Title

Parade of health visitors heading for St Giles Cathedral

Description

Mary Cunningham is at the front on the left.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1937

Size

16.3 x 10.8cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

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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