• Public health nursing · Apr 1995

    Historical Article

    The Howard Association of New Orleans--precursor to district nursing.

    • L Hanggi-Myers.
    • Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, USA.
    • Public Health Nurs. 1995 Apr 1; 12 (2): 78-82.

    AbstractAlthough philanthropist William Rathbone is generally recognized as the founder of district nursing (in Liverpool, England, in 1859), the Howard Association of New Orleans actually began to use a pattern of district nursing 26 years earlier as a response to yellow fever epidemics. Concepts brought forth by the association included dividing the city into districts; teaching preventive measures; using community members to locate those needing assistance; and caring for the sick in their homes, utilizing nurses when the need arose.

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