[3] By 1919 there was disaffection with Fenwick's approach so Rachael Cox-Davies and Alicia Lloyd Still[3] invited some 50 matrons, resulting in a turn-out of 21 at the founding meeting of the Association at St Thomas’ Hospital on 15 April 1919.
[4] This remained in existence as the Association of Health and Residential Care Officers, until it dissolved in 1984 for reasons similar to those that put an end to the ANA.
[4] The Association was a network of local branches with a central executive committee which met monthly in London.
[7] The Royal Society of Health provided office space to the Association of Nurse Administrators almost to the end of its existence.
Much of this was whilst Maureen Fraser Gamble OBE was honorary secretary after she had retired as district nursing officer at the Hammersmith Hospital in 1980.