Essex Cottage Nursing Association,District Nurses badge

A base metal and enamel District nurses badge for the Essex Cottage Nursing Association.It consists of a blue Enamel shield shape bearing another silver shield with the three Seaxes of Essex.Condition is good with moderate wear, pin and clasp is good.Makers marks for Fattorini & Sons Ltd Bradford House Birmingham, which dates this to between 1928 and 1932.This predates the formation of the NHS in 1948 when many counties would have their own Community nursing services of the Queen's Institute of District Nursing.The Essex Cottage Nursing Association was founded in 1905.Height 32mm

Code: 53796