Quarterly Bulletins of the Frontier Nursing Service - 1930 through 1939

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Leslie County, Kentucky, United States
Surnames/tags: Kentucky Nursing

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The Frontier Nursing Service was founded in 1925 in Leslie County, Kentucky. The following links point to quarterly service bulletins in the years 1930-1939.

Contents 1 1930 2 1931 3 1932 4 1933 5 1934 6 1935

1930

Note: There were only three volumes published in 1930

Vol. VI, No. 1, Summer 1930

Previously unrecorded nurses:

Isabel Dougall - married Fernando Marraine in London, England in 1933

Frances Fell

Mary Harry

Nora K. Kelly

Leona Morgan

Olive Nicklin

Margaret Oetjen - from Chicago, Illinois

Frances Osgood

Bridget Isabel Ristori

Margaret Tinline

Bessie Waller - from England

Ada Worcester - from England

Vol. VI, No. 2, Autumn 1930 No new nurses were named

Vol. V, No. 4, Spring 1930

New nurses are:

Bessie Charlton

Helen Edgecombe

Maron Price

1931

Vol. VII, No. 1, Summer 1931

Previously unrecorded nurses:

Eleanor Hines

Sybil Johnson

Katharine McHugh

Hannah (Nancy) O'Driscoll--Irish native who passed away due to appendicitis on 20 July 1931

Vanda Summers

Nancy Woolrich

Vol. VII, No. 2, Autumn 1931 No new nurses named

Vol. VI, No. 3, Winter 1931 No new nurses named

Vol. VI, No. 4, Spring 1931 No new nurses named

1932

Due to budget cuts, the Service was forced to reduced the number of nurses and staff.

Vol. VIII, No. 1, Summer 1932 No new nurses named

Vol. VIII, No. 2, Autumn 1932 No new nurses named

Vol. VII, No. 3, Winter 1932 No new nurses named

Vol. VII, No. 4, Spring 1932 No new nurses named

1933

Vol. IX, No. 1, Summer 1933

New nurse:

Betty Wasburn - short term nurse from Minneapolis, MN

Vol. IX, No. 2, Autumn 1933

New nurse:

Doris Dunstan - from England

Vol. VIII, No. 3, Winter 1933 No new nurses named

Vol. VIII, No. 4, Spring 1933 No new nurses named

1934

Vol. X, No. 1, Summer 1934

New nurse:

Dorothy Farrar Buck

Vol. X, No. 2, Autumn 1934

New nurse:

Eva Gilbert

Vol. IX, No. 3, Winter 1934 No new nurses named

Vol. IX, No. 4, Spring 1934

New nurse: Elizabeth Stevenson

1935

Vol. XI, No. 1, Summer 1935

New nurses:

Adeline Clark

Mary Cummings

Della Int-Hout

Virginia Miller

Margaret Thomas

Vol. XI, No. 2, Autumn 1935

New nurse:

May Green

Vol. X, No. 3, Winter 1935 No new nurses named

Vol. X, No. 4, Spring 1935 No new nurses named