Dedication: This book is dedicated to the registered nurses who founded, created ...birthed, the first Private Hospitals. The history of them goes back to the 1920s... In more recent times ... the 1950s onwards, there were wonderful women carrying out the old traditions. Women well trained and dedicated ... Ruby, Phyl, Billie, Lois, Jocelyn, Anne, Pat, Mavis, Jane, Beverly, Di ... to mention only a few.