Moore County

County History:

Moore

Region:

Piedmont

Quick Facts

People and Biographies

Notable individuals from nursing history.

Shirley Baldwin ( ): Baldwin was honored with the Governor's Medallion Award for Volunteer Service for her work as a parish nurse and her work at the free clinic in Moore County.
Idell K. Buchan (1887-1947): Public health nurse who worked in several counties and departments throughout the state.

Special Topics

Special topics and events from the county's nursing history.

Pickford Sanitarium for Consumptive Negroes, Southern Pines, NC
- Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina, 1910 [electronic ed.] available through UNC's Documenting the American South. Provides information about the Pickford Sanitarium on page 68.
- Pickford Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Adrienne Dunn (2010) on the North Carolina History Project.
- The Pickford Sanitarium. For Consumptive Negroes. Southern Pines, N.C. [document summary] available digitally through UNC's Documenting the American South.
- The Southern Sanitarium. Vol. 1, no. 4 (January 1, 1897) [electronic ed.] available through UNC's Documenting the American South.

Resources

Additional resources for further research.

Healthcare Institutions

Articles and Publications

Cray, W.C. (1991). In love and service: the story of Moore Regional Hospital. Pinehurst, N.C.: Moore Regional Hospital.
Hall, F.D. (1994). In loving memory. American Journal of Nursing, 94(3). p.33. Article about the joys of nursing.
Hawkins, O.W. (2008). Pickford Sanitarium and R.C,.Lawson Institute: two former institutions of Southern Pines, North Carolina. Unknown publisher.
Moore County's Maternal Welfare Committee. (1940, May). The Health Bulletin, pp.6-14.

Newspaper Clippings

1921, May 05. Red Cross Meet at Big Oaks Sunday. The Moore County News. Carthage, North Carolina.

Archives

Articles about the new maternity clinics strated in 1936 can be found in The Pilot (the Southern Pines newspaper) on Oct 16, 1936 and November 27, 1936.

Compiled by:

Phoebe Pollitt

North Carolina Nursing History