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women in medicine ( WW1) PT 1 - Coggle Diagram
women in medicine ( WW1) PT 1
the work of the RAMC and of the nurses
The Royal Army medical corps
dealt with injured soldiers
organised treatment for the wounded, close to the front line
Main group - Alexandra's imperial military nursing service (QAIMNS)
founded in
1902
in
1914
, had 300 nurses
1918
, had 10,000 nurses
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)
founded -
1907
where first aid specialists
needed skills to get to the wounded on the battlefield
women as volunteers
1917
Women army auxiliary corps
ambulance drivers
Red cross
sent out voluntary aid detachments
Drove ambulances and acted as nurses in the RAMC hospitals
cleaning floors, changing bed linin and cleaning out bedpans
usually middle class, single women, little relevant experience
No official register until
1919
Women doctors
1876 Act
allowed women to gain a medical degree
DR Else Inglis
offered to take the women's medical units to the front and create a 100 bed hospital
DR Louisa Garret ( daughter of Elizabet)
and
Dr Flora Murray
founded the women hospital corpse
had to open military hospitals in
Paris
and near
Boulogne
before getting permission for opening one in
London
Mabel Stobart
founded a hospital staffed only by women but it was in Belgium
start of war
war office believed they had enough male doctors
refused to employ women doctors
However, various agency's sent medical supplies and teams to help ( included women)
Voluntary hospitals
Many early volunteers where from
rich and powerful families
Duchess of Sutherland
used to running large households and family estates
when the war office did not want their help they organised transport to France and Belgium to set up hospitals and causality cleaning stations
Mairi Chisholm & Elsie Knocker
travelled to Belgium to join a small ambulance corps set up by
Dr Hector Munro
Two women set up a first aid post in Pervyse, 100 metres away from the Belgium front line
to many soldiers were dying because the hospital was to far away
nickname: 'Angles of Pervyse'
largest hospital in France and closet to the frontline
ran by
Dr Frances Iven's
over 600 beds and an excellent x-ray unit
between
January 1915
and
February 1919
surgeons performed
7,202
operations