North Carolina Nursing History

Health Care Institutions

• Rowan Way-Side Hospital, Salisbury, North Carolina [electronic ed.], information available through UNC's Documenting the American South

Articles and Publications

• Nursing in mission stations. (1911). The American Journal of Nursing, 12(3), pp. 217-219. This article discusses nurse Laura May Pitts, a graduate of the Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium in Salisbury, North Carolina who died while working at a Presbyterian Mission in Korea.
• Rowan and Davie Counties Story of Medicine 1753-1976, published in 1979 by the Salisbury Printing Company, has information about the Whitehead Stoke School of Nursing (started in 1903 with Miss Ella Price Smith as Head Nurse) and the Rowan County Health Dept which opened in 1918 with a few small rooms on the 2nd floor of the courthouse.)

Archives

• 1918 Rowan County Red Cross Volunteer Nurses in Salisbury on Christmas Day [photograph] available from the North Carolina State Archives.
• Whitehead-Stoke Sanatorium, Salisbury, N.C. [image] available in UNC's North Carolina Postcards collection.
• The Rowan County Public Library has a folder containing articles on nurses, the hospital, doctors etc. Additionally, there are yearbooks from a local nursing school, "The White Cap" - 1950, 1951, 1956-66, 1968-71.

Newspaper Clippings

• 1920, Feb 25. Nurse [Laura Rousseau] Died. Salisbury Evening Post, p.6. Salisbury, North Carolina.
• 1920, Feb 28. Whole Time Nurse On Duty March 1, Mrs. Bassett Becomes Full Time County Nurse and Miss Lynch Full Time City Nurse -- Planning For Full Time Dentist. Salisbury Evening Post, p.3. Salisbury, North Carolina.
• 1920, May 19. Red Cross Report, Report of School Nursing by Salisbury Chapter American Red Cross Nurse During Month of April 1920. Salisbury Evening Post, p.5. Salisbury, North Carolina.
• 1920, May 22. Red Cross Public Health Nurses Tag Sale. Salisbury Evening Post, p.3. Salisbury, North Carolina.
• 1920, Jun 24. Report of Health Work for May, A Number of Interesting Facts Brought to Light by the Report of the School and Red Cross Nurses. Salisbury Evening Post, p.2. Salisbury, North Carolina.
• 1920, Nov 05. Report By The Sec. Health Center, Anne Neave, This Report is From July 15th to Oct 27th, 1920. Salisbury Evening Post, p.2. Salisbury, North Carolina.