Thirty-sixth Annual Report for the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses, Cardiff and District Branch, 1926

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Thirty-sixth Annual Report for the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses, Cardiff and District Branch, formed of 28 pages. The Report was for 1925, received from the Institute's Committee as the result of an inspection of the Cardiff Home between 8 and 15 February 1926. The booklet was published in 1926 by William Lewis, printer and stationer, who was based in Duke Street, Cardiff. It was distributed to the wider population in order to raise more funds and to present the charitable work carried out by the Institute. The Report includes statistics about the general work carried out by nurses, annual accounts, and lists the names of volunteer donors and agencies from Cardiff, and donated items.

The charity traces its origins to 1887 with the grant of £70,000 by Queen Victoria from the Women's Jubilee Fund. A Royal Charter in 1889 named it 'Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses' and gave it the objectives of providing the 'training, support, maintenance and supply' of district and practice nurses (as opposed to hospital nurses) for the sick poor, as well as establishing training homes and establishing branches. It built on the pioneering work of philanthropist William Rathbone of Liverpool in 1859. In 1928 the name was altered to Queen's Institute of District Nursing, though it was often known by the shorter name of Queen's Nurses Institute. In 1973 the formal name changed to Queen's Nursing Institute.

The Welsh branch started in 1890 and was initially based in the Cardiff area but gradually grew to cover most of Wales. The branch was therefore later reconstituted as 'Cardiff and District.'

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