A nursing manual booklet (a) from the Metropolitan Life-Insurance Nursing Service; with a blue cover; 39 pages; also contains a removable Chart of policyholder eligibility (b) folded to fit into the booklet.
A nursing manual booklet (a) from the Metropolitan Life-Insurance Nursing Service; with a blue cover; 39 pages; also contains a removable Chart of policyholder eligibility (b) folded to fit into the booklet.
Number Of Parts
2
Part Names
a - booklet - Size: Length 19.2 cm x Width 13.5 cm x Depth 0.2 cm
b - chart - Size (folded): Length 17.3 cm x Width 12.0
Provenance
Owned by the donor's mother, Joan Stewart Prichard, a graduate of the Kingston General Hospital Nurses' Training School (Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing) in 1947.
"NURSING // MANUAL // METROPOLITAN-LIFE INSURANCE-CO // NURSING // SERVICE // EDITION OF SEPTEMBER 1948" printed on the cover "CHART // OF // POLICY HOLDER ELIGIBILITY // FOR NURSING SERVICE" printed at the top of the chart
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-2 Box 4
Condition Remarks
Some minor wear to the paper.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Article
Reference Comments
Diane Hamilton, "THE COST OF CARING: THE METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY'S VISITING NURSE SERVICE, 1909-1953," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 63, No. 3 (FALL 1989), pp. 414-434. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44447620
Research Facts
This manual contains the rules and regulations for the Visiting Nurse Service provided by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The service began in 1909 from an agreement made between Haley Fiske, vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Lillian Wald, director of the Henry Street Settlement House. Wald would send trained nurses to work for Metropolitan Life as visiting nurses to eligible policyholders for fifty cents per visit. The nurses treated the poor, the working class, and immigrants of New York City, and eventually nurses from other organizations joined as well. Between 1909 and 1953, when the service ended, around twenty million policy holders received nursing care from this service.