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Mary Cunningham: Pioneering Health Visitor
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Mary Cunningham, nurse, holding two babies
Unknown, 1914, Photograph
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Mary Cunningham, nurse, holding two babies
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Mary Cunningham, nurse, holding two babies at Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital
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Mary Cunningham was one of Edinburgh's first health visitors as part of the introduction of Edinburgh's Child Welfare Scheme.
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Unknown
Date
1914
Size
4 x 6.1cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Edinburgh opened a General Lying in Hospital in 1793 at Park House which was the forerunner of the 1879 Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Maternity Hospital. Developments from this were an ante-natal clinic (1915), a post natal clinic (1926) at which time it became part of the Royal Infirmary. The Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion opened in 1939 and was managed by the Royal Infirmary. In 1994 it became part of the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh NHS Trust before being reorganised into the Lothian University Hospital NHS Trust. The Maternity Hospital is now located at the new ERI in Little France.
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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