In 1885 by Elizabeth Coe Marshall. who collected money from her Sunday school class and other concerned citizens to provide health care to the indigent In the community. The early mission of the visiting nurse associations was twofold: to ensure the survival of infants and children by providing mothers and babies with milk. nutritional foods and advice. and health care. and to combat contagious diseases by cleaning homes. Over the years. visiting nurse associations provided health care and disease prevention education to immigrants who did not understand English well enough to survive in their new homeland. VNAs battled plagues and contagious diseases In Western mining camps. And they taught cooking skills and first aid to Camp Fire Girls and Boy Scouts.
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