ABSTRACT
MY CONCERN is with Public Health Nursing Services in the U.K. They have grown up in a very haphazard fashion during the past century and in order to understand them, one needs to go back to the Industrial Revolution, and its consequences in the middle of the nineteenth century. An even worse evil than the slums which grew up around the factories was that the young women who left the rural areas came away from their only source of instruction in child care. There were very few books, and the population was still largely illiterate. The children reared in these insanitary conditions, by ignorant mothers, died in thousands.
