ABSTRACT
Summers described a paucity of sources relating to nursing in the domestic environment.1 Although concerned primarily with the nineteenth-century community nurse, her comments about the obscurity of these practitioners were equally relevant to the district nurse of the twentieth century. In the use of oral histories, personal testimonies, and written autobiography, this book has gone some way in challenging that state of affairs. Wherever possible, its aim has been to recount the actual experiences and work undertaken by district nurses.
