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Cottage Hospital, opened in September 1872, in two small cottages on Stanbow Lane; it cost £200 a year, and treated around 50 people in the first year.
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Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
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