Providence Hospital St Helens,Nurses Badge

A scarce nurses badge from from the Providence Free Hospital St Helens.The Providence was founded by Mother Magdalen Taylor and her community of religious sisters calling themselves ‘The Poor Servants of the Mother of God’. She had served as a nurse in the Crimea, working with Florence Nightingale.
The shield shaped badge contains the monogram PHMG(Providence Hospital Mother of God?).The Latin phrase Salus Infirmorum (Health of the Sick) OPN appears at the top.Unmarked to rear.Condition is very good.Hight 32mm

Code: 52615