Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the first superintendent, and later inspector general, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospital.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Dame Rosalind Paget
The plaque gives 1739 as the foundation date but sources give 1749.
Discovered the bacilli for anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera. A founder of bacteriology. Born Clausthal, Germany. Died Baden-Baden, Germany.
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1926-1947. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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