St. Elizabeth's Hospital School of Nursing Ledgers, 1895-1917
Faris Lahham and BC Libraries Digital Scholarship Group
Faris Lahham and BC Libraries Digital Scholarship Group
Here you can explore the records of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing students from 1895 to 1917. Click a student to view their demographics and course of study, or edit a filter to get insights into a specific part of the data.
These records are from ledgers housed in the Burns Library's St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing Collection. So far, 351 out of 722 pages have been processed.
Students entered (and graduated) at various times throughout the year, with the most common entry month being January.
While most students were aged 20-24, many joined later in their life.
Additionally, the majority of students did not end up graduating (with individual reasons often specified in comments on the ledgers).
Not everyone went through the same training, and many students specialized in certain categories and didn't undergo any training in others.
Certain categories like district nursing and maternity work were less popular, with less than half of students training in each category.
Most students were born in New England, but students born in Canada and Ireland accounted for 20 and 15 percent of the overall intake, respectively.
Notes on the Data:
On the map, some locations are simplified (many entries only specified a country or region like "Ireland" or "County Monaghan" -- in these cases, the capital city of the country or region is used as a stand-in for a more precise location.
Training durations were converted to decimal weeks (e.g., 2 weeks and 3 days were recorded as 2.43)
The work categories are copied from the categories listed on the ledger. Sometimes they are phrased differently in the ledgers (e.g., "Special Nursing" and "Special Duty" were both considered the same category).
Citations
Student ledgers, 1895-1917, 1985-1998. St. Elizabeth's Hospital School of Nursing collection, MS-2000-018B. John J. Burns Library.