 |  | | | Women Humanitarians 5 | Friday 29 March 2002 | | |
Everyone knows of the great work that Florence Nightingale did in establishing the nursing profession. But there are many other unsung heroines who advanced the treatment of the ill over the course of the 19th and 20th century whose work is much less well known.
Women like Louisa Twining, who founded the Workhouse Visiting Society in 1848, in an attempt to reform the care of the sick and elderly who lived in these infamous British institutions.
In the next of our series on Women Humanitarians, Sybil Oldfield and Helen Rappaport explain why the workhouse was such a terrible place to fall ill.
Helen Rappaport is the author of: Encyclopaedia of Women Social Reformers, published by ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1-57607-101-4
Sybil Oldfield is the author of: Women Humanitarians, A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Active between 1900 and 150, published by Continuum, ISBN 0 8264 4962 X
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