Mustard Plasters and Handcars: Through the Eyes of a Red Cross Outpost Nurse

by Gertrude LeRoy Miller

Wilberforce, in 1922, became home to the first Red Cross Outpost Hospital in Ontario. It was here in this somewhat isolated northern rural village in the Haliburton Highlands, only a short distance from southeastern Algonquin Park, that Gertrude LeRoy , newly graduated as a nurse and with a certificate in public health nursing, began her career. This is Gertrude's story, her trials and tribulations, her joys and her successes in her 24-hours-a-day,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896219659
• ISBN13: 9781896219653
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"