Lillian Wald’s Lower East Side: From the Visiting Nurse Service to the Henry Street Settlement

Nov 30, 2018 |

Henry Street Nurses, courtesy of The Henry Street Settlement In 1893, the 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald founded the Lower East Side’s Henry Street Settlement, and what would become the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Two years of nursing school had given her the “inspiration to be of use some way or somehow,” and she […more]

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