| She Answered Every Call |
| The Life of Public Health Nurse, Mona Gordon Wilson (1894-1981) |
| Douglas O. Baldwin |
Mona Wilson was born in Toronto, and received her nursing
degree from John Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore. At the
end of the First World War, she joined the American Red Cross
Society and spent four years caring for the sick in Vladivostok
and teaching public health to refugees and tribes people in the
mountains of Albania and Montenegro.
During the Second World War, as the Canadian Red Cross
Commissioner for Newfoundland, she administered to the
psychological and physical needs of shipwrecked soldiers and
sailors in the North Atlantic Run.
From her arrival on Prince Edward Island in 1923 to her death in
1981, Mona Gordon Wilson was one of the mos important women
on the Island. Almost single-handedly Mona Wilson initiated and
carried out public health programs in Canada's smallest province.
As Chief Red Cross Nurse and later as Provincial Director of
Public Health Nursing, she touched the lives of almost everyone -
examining students for head lice, campaigning for a sanatorium,
combating infectious diseases, initiating Girl Guides, and writing
articles on nutrition for the local newspapers.
Everywhere Mona went she preached the benefits of preventative
health care and provided a source of inspiration for
tradition-minded Island women.
degree from John Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore. At the
end of the First World War, she joined the American Red Cross
Society and spent four years caring for the sick in Vladivostok
and teaching public health to refugees and tribes people in the
mountains of Albania and Montenegro.
During the Second World War, as the Canadian Red Cross
Commissioner for Newfoundland, she administered to the
psychological and physical needs of shipwrecked soldiers and
sailors in the North Atlantic Run.
From her arrival on Prince Edward Island in 1923 to her death in
1981, Mona Gordon Wilson was one of the mos important women
on the Island. Almost single-handedly Mona Wilson initiated and
carried out public health programs in Canada's smallest province.
As Chief Red Cross Nurse and later as Provincial Director of
Public Health Nursing, she touched the lives of almost everyone -
examining students for head lice, campaigning for a sanatorium,
combating infectious diseases, initiating Girl Guides, and writing
articles on nutrition for the local newspapers.
Everywhere Mona went she preached the benefits of preventative
health care and provided a source of inspiration for
tradition-minded Island women.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One The Formative Years, 1894-1914 Chapter Two The Hopkins Experience, 1915-1918 Chapter Three Influenza, War, and the Bolsheviks Chapter Four The Balkan Adventure, 1919-1922 Chapter Five Prince Edward Island Bound, 1922-1925 Chapter Six Public Health Work, 1925-1931 Chapter Seven Mona Wilson, Civil Servant, 1931-1939 Chapter Eight The Florence Nightingale of Newfoundland, 1940-1946 Chapter Nine Charting New Courses, 1946-1961 Chapter Ten A Time to Reminisce, 1961-1981 Bibliography Photocredits |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Douglas Baldwin |
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