| Description | In this address Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury remarks that her interest in hospital work was awakened by Florence Nightingale's appeal to educated girls asking them to take up nursing during the late 1870s. She writes that her younger sister Janet Taylor 'was one of the twelve girls who about 1878, responded to the call'.
Taylor Cadbury notes that her family had long been interested in the National Temperance Hospital which was established in 1880 by her uncle Thomas Cash. Taylor Cadbury herself became President of this hospital in 1935. She also remarks on her interest in the work of the Crippled Children's Union, commenting on the visits which she helped to organise for children associated with the Union who were regularly invited to the Manor Farm in the grounds of her home in Northfield.
Much of Taylor Cadbury's address concerns the establishment of 'the Woodlands', which later developed into Birmingham's Orthopaedic Hospital in November 1929. Taylor Cadbury remarks that her lifelong association with hospitals had led to her election as President of the United Hospitals in Birmingham in 1941.
Two annotated typescripts of this address are featured here. |