Mary Cunningham weighing a baby

Category

Library Item

Item no

32448

Title

Mary Cunningham weighing a baby at Rosefield Avenue Lane Health Clinic

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1921

Size

9.7x15.4cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image was taken at Rosefield Avenue Lane Health Clinic, Portobello. The clinic was open on this site until 2004, it is now a dance studio.

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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