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Edith Cavell (1865-1915): Assistant Matron
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Edith Cavell was a nurse probationer at the London Hospital under Eva Lückes in 1896. She took posts as Night Superintendent at St Pancras Infirmary in 1899, Assistant Matron at Shoreditch Infirmary in 1903 and Matron at the Manchester and Salford Sick Poor and Private Nursing Institution in 1907. She took charge of the pioneer training school for lay nurses, L'Ecole d'Infirmiere Dimplonier', in Brussels, in 1907. Whilst Belgium was under German occupation she sheltered British, French and Belgian soldiers at the Institute and helped them escape to Holland. She was arrested, tried by court-martial and executed in 1915.
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In 1898 Edith was recommended for private nursing, dealing with cases of pleurisy, pneumonia, typhoid and ... a Bishop's appendicitis. This was followed in 1989 by a period as Night Superintendent at St. Pancras, a Poor Law institution for the destitute, three out of four of which died of a chronic condition. In 1903 she was appointed as Assistant Matron at Shoreditch Infirmary where she pioneered follow-up work by visiting patients after they had been discharged.
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At the age of 30 Cavell joined the London Hospital as a probationer and nursed in England for a time before nursing in Brussels. In 1907 she was appointed as Matron to the Berkendael Medical Institute (Brussels) where she worked at developing a small clinic into a teaching hospital with an international reputation.
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