Susan Villiers (nurse)

[2] After leaving Barts, Villiers spent the rest of her career specialising in fever nursing, although she took on other commitments too.

[2] During the nineteenth century the Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB) built a number of fever hospitals around London.

[3] While patients received medical care they were removed from crowded neighbourhoods and isolated to help prevent epidemics.

[4] The Fever Nurses Association (FNA) was established early in 1908 and later that year Villiers was elected to be on its first Council.

One of the FNA's main aims was to create a universal standard of training for fever nurses in suitable, approved UK hospitals.

During this time her work on GNC committees helped lead it to adopt the educational curricula and other schemes drawn up by the FNA.

This meant moving out of hospital quarters and she went to live near some of her siblings in Hertfordshire where she served as a magistrate in Stevenage, as did two of her sisters and a brother.

[2] Villiers belonged to the Guild of St Barnabas, an Anglican society offering spiritual support to nurses, and became its Superior in 1935.