Annie Parkes ROCHE
The immense value of a parish nurse in Newbury has been fully testified during the past few weeks. Nurse Roche has already had ample opportunity to test her skill and capabilities and on all sides I hear her spoken of in the highest terms.
As a sample of her usefulness during her first five weeks residence she paid 337 visits to 60 patients.
That a skilled nurse should be always available for poor people, irrespective of denominational differences, is a boon which can only be appreciated to the full in times of epidemic such as we are passing through, and it is hoped ample means will be forthcoming for helping so excellent an institution as a nurse for poor people.
Newbury Weekly News 20 January 1892 and reprinted in “Old Memories Revived” on 26 January 2017.
Mrs. P. Code NCh (E) 1 Page 82
She died on 27 May 1929 aged 67 |