Medicine 4: Women

Question 1

Women in 1850

Answer 1

Women could not be doctors, women could be nurses
* Doctors had to go to Uni (closed to women)
* Doctors had to belong to a college (all closed to women)

Question 2

Florence Nightingale

Improvements at Scitari

Answer 2

• Arrived November 1854
• Spring 1855 death rate had fallen from 60% to 2.2%
• Deaths pealed in January 1855 with 3,168 that month

Question 3

Florence Nightingale

Improvements in England

Answer 3

• 1859 Wrote 2 books called “Advice on Nursing”
• 1860 Established ‘Nightingalge training school for nurses’:
  1. Nurses should have practical training
  2. Nurses should live in a moral, disciplined home

Question 4

Elizabeth Garret

Path to Doctorate

Answer 4

• Attended classes for men before being banned from Middlesex
• Joined society for Apothecaries in 1865
• Went to Paris University to gain Medical degree

Question 5

Elizabeth Garret

New Hospital for Women

Answer 5

• Founded 1872 by Garret
• Staffed entirely by women
• 1873 Garret joined BMA, was the last woman for 19 years as they voted against further women being allowed

Question 6

1876 Medical act

Answer 6

Allowed women to enter medicine, numbers remained low anyway

Question 7

WW1

QAIMNS

Answer 7

• Founded in 1902 during boer war
• 300 women in 1914
• 10,000 members by 1918

Question 8

WW1

FANY

Answer 8

• Launched in 1907
• Specialists in First Aid

Question 9

WW1

Women Doctors

Answer 9

• Women were not permitted at the front
• Dr Louisa Garret and Dr Murray led an all womens war hospital in London
• Lack of staff at home meant more women qualified, 610 by 1911 and 1500 by 1921

Question 10

WW2

QAIMNS and FANY

Answer 10

QAIMNS:
* Given military ranks
* Served in a range of Countries in high danger
FANY:
* Attached to the 24,000 poles that escaped Poland
* Served as radio operators

Question 11

WW2

Women Doctors

Answer 11

• Less impactful than WW1
• Femal medical students 2000 in 1939 to 2900 in 1946
• Women worked closer to battle than in WW1