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Bulletin of Instruction: Visiting Nurse Service Administered by Henry Street Settlement. Where else in the world can you find early Quakers and public health nurses and Gay Bob dolls all in one room?

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Class 2: Health Care for Immigrant Neighbors

Introduction:

This class examines the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service, founded by nurses Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster in 1893 to bring health care to the immigrant neighborhoods of New York’s Lower East Side.

Earlier this month I was in NYC and stumbled upon an amazing exhibit “Activist New York” at the Museum of theCity of New York (runs through the end of the summer). The overview placard reads:

“In 1893, two young nurses, Lillian D. Wald and Mary Brewster moved into a Lower East Side apartment to offer medical services to poor immigrants living in tenements nearby.

The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project and the Henry Street Settlement collaborated on an effort to incorporate the LGBT significance of the site for its association with Lillian Wald and the homosocial world of the settlement which impacted her both personally and professionally. Both were trained as public health nurses (a term coined by Wald) and moved to the Lower East Side to put their knowledge to practical use.

The house at 265 Henry Street was the first permanent home of the organization when it relocated here in 1895.

https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookviewer?PID=nlm:nlmuid-101513896-bk.

Wald, Lillian. Nurses would also take local residents to other neighborhoods so they could experience life away from their cramped tenement district. How have the populations served by New York’s visiting nurses changed over the past 120 years? As a result, 265 and 267 Henry Street were given additional National Register recognition as the Lillian Wald Residence in February 2022, following the site’s listing on the New York State Register of Historic Places in December 2021.

Henry Street developed into a major Lower East Side institution serving as a community center with educational and cultural offerings.

The workers at Henry Street who lived (or settled) in the building were almost all middle-class women.

Blanche Wiesen Cook, author, 1979

Wald had relationships with other women who lived at Henry Street, as well as with several wealthy patrons, notably prominent social workerMabel Hyde Kittredge and lawyer and theater producer Helen Arthur.

By the time of her retirement in 1933, Wald managed a staff of 265 nurses caring for 100,000 patients.

Are there any similarities?

Discuss this statement (pp. Her urban nursing service helped create the field of public health nursing. In between the Quakers and Gay Bob (the world’s first gay doll), was an entire section on Lillian Wald and the Henry Street Settlement. When Wald moved into 265 Henry Street in 1895, the city had a handful of settlement houses; by 1911 it would have at least 70.

This was also foundational to the origins of Henry Street Settlement and the settlement house movement, a movement in which lesbians played pivotal leadership roles. Wald, Brewster, and others provided nursing, at low or no cost, to the neighborhood’s poor in their homes, but would also visit those in need in other parts of the city.

(Note: The site name Lillian Wald Residence was used merely for National Register administrative purposes to differentiate the 2022 listing from the 1974 listing, but is not an official name used by the Henry Street Settlement.)

Entry by Andrew S. Dolkart, project director (March 2017; last revised February 2022).

NOTE: Names above in bold indicate LGBT people.

How has the Henry Street Settlement (now Visiting Nurse Service of New York) changed between the 1890s and today?

Henry Street photographs in Outside / Inside: Digital Gallery.