NJ School Nursing Tidbits 

1893 Marietta Squires was the Nurse at Miss Dana's School for Girls in Morristown, NJ.

1906 The health disaster of a diphtheria epidemic brought nurses into public schools.  First time public health nurses were used by school.

 School officials soon realized the school nurse is most useful as an educator and should be trained accordingly. A new specialty arose.

1937-38 New Jersey State School Nurses were organized and incorporated School Nursing in N.J.

Before 1953

Nursing Services were originally provided by the TB League on an hourly basis in co-operation with the State Health Department.

The First programs were in Green Bank, New Gretna and Chatsworth on a part time basis.

1949

Fulltime school nursing services were started in Palmyra, Moorestown, Bordentown and Pemberton Boro under the auspices of the NJ. Dept. of Education.

Miss Lulu Delworth was responsible for giving guidance to the school nurse program.

1951-52

An organizational Committee was formed as an urgent need was felt that Burlington County needed its own Association. 

The Public Health Nursing organization which supplied services in a number of county schools wanted to have the school nurse program operate under them.

1952

The committee of Ruth Darnell, Alice Cults, Jane Croshaw, Violet Murray. Ruth Hammill, Lena Wargo, Ruth Shinn, Ann Heller, Peg Daugherty, Naomi Bartlett , Mildred Coyle worked tirelessly to form a County Organization.