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Anne Hervey Strong
1876–1925
A pioneering public health nurse and educator, she helped shape how home nursing and community health were taught in the early 20th century. Her best-known published work is the revised American Red Cross guide to home hygiene and care of the sick.
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American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick
by American National Red Cross, Jane A. Delano, Isabel McIsaac, Anne Hervey Strong
About the author
Born in 1876, Anne Hervey Strong built her career around public health nursing at a time when the field was still taking shape. The American Nurses Association notes that after volunteer and staff work with the Henry Street Settlement Nursing Service in New York City, she committed herself to public health nursing and went on to become a major figure in nursing education.
In 1918, she became the first director of the School of Public Health Nursing at Simmons College, a role she held until her death in 1925. Archival material from Simmons also reflects her involvement in efforts to develop public health nursing as a distinct course of study rather than just an offshoot of general nursing training.
Readers are most likely to encounter her name through American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick, a widely circulated practical guide that she revised and rewrote from earlier material by Jane A. Delano. Her work connects directly to the history of nursing, public health, and everyday caregiving instruction in the United States.