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School Nurses, Section I – Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBLouis, Wald said, “set” her “thinking” about what she could do to keep children in school. His problem—and its fairly simple remedy—inspired her and Mary Brewster to collect and …

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School Nurses, Section II – Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBLillian Wald was a reluctant critic of the 1897 reform policy that excluded contagious children from schools. She believed that the Board of Health meant well, but thought …

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Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEB< Previous Next >. By Anne M. Filiaci, Ph.D. Wald believed that recreation was a human right, crucial to promoting public health and improving the quality of life.

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Henry Street Settlement 1895-1900 : Clubs

WEBWald called the Henry Street Settlement’s first boys’ club a “happy accident.”. It arose out of “an extremely unpleasant encounter with boys who were suspicious of strangers [i.e., …

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Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBBy Anne M. Filiaci, Ph.D. Lillian Wald first witnessed the squalor and misery of daily life in New York City’s slums as a medical student. In the spring of 1893, she volunteered to …

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Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBOne of the young women who had heeded Wald’s call became a Henry Street resident and a teacher at Public School No. 1 (the Henry Street School). While working, she got to …

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About – Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBAbout; Home; Childhood. Childhood; Adolescence; Nursing & School Nurses. Nursing School; Nurse Training; Lillian Wald and the Nursing Profession, 1893-1895; School

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School Nurses Section III – Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBThe City’s Board of Estimate and Apportionment appropriated $30,000 for the following year (1903), which “provided a staff of twenty-seven nurses at a salary of nine hundred …

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Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBLillian Wald Overview. Biographical. After Nursing School Until 1893. Creating a Settlement 1893-1895. Henry Street Settlement. and Promoting Public Education. Henry Street …

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Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBThe Report described New York’s tenements as “nests of fever infection, and the poisoned abodes of physical decay.”. Within their walls, “a worse than Spartan fate” awaited “all …

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Childhood – Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBBy all accounts, Max Wald grew up to be a gentle, unselfish and dependable man. He married Minnie Schwarz, a pretty and strong-willed woman from a large, close-knit …

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Nursing School – Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBNursing School—The Decision. Julia Wald had reached the pinnacle of success for young upper-middle-class woman in late nineteenth century American society. She married …

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Medical School and Epiphany – Lillian Wald — Public Health …

WEBWMC had been founded in 1868 by Elizabeth Blackwell , the first woman in the United States to obtain a degree from a recognized medical school. It was established as an …

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Lillian Wald — Public Health Progressive

WEBThe Henry Street Settlement—Redefining Family, 1895-1900. By Anne M. Filiaci, Ph.D. Lillian Wald had a strong, magnetic personality and an unwavering vision. …

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Children’s Welfare—Wald and Child Labor to 1900

WEBDuring the 1890s, Wald also became a fierce advocate in the fight to abolish child labor. In this effort too, she worked within the wider reform movement, informed by the beliefs of …

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