[District Nursing Appeal]

Description: The Royal District Nursing Service was founded in 1885 and was originally called the Melbourne District Nursing Service. An initiative led by the Reverend Charles Strong, the organisation was established to nurse the sick, poor and disadvantaged in their own homes. By the early 1920s the nurses were treating 25,000 patients per year and had established a convalescent institution, the After-Care Home (later Hospital) in Collingwood. In 1966 the organisation became the Royal District Nursing Service.