Elizabeth Ellen
Daly coming from
Farebrother
Street, Grimsby.
Already an
experienced nurse,
She had first
worked as a maid -
At the Grimsby
and District
Hospital - when in July 1913,
She travelled to
Southend, Essex
As probation lead
nurse until
1915 Aged 26 to
be Nurse Daly.
In Southend
Sanatorium
Nurse, Elizabeth
Daly,
Had undertaken
Night Duty
On the Scarlet
Fever Ward.
As was her habit
she took
Food with her to
eat
At the end of the
shift.
After the usual
long night
Shift Nurse Daly
went
To the kitchen -
to prepare
Her breakfast of
scrambled
Eggs - during
this she slipped
Next to the
fireside - when
Her clothing
caught alight
Rushing into a
bathroom,
She jumped into
the bath -
Where with taps
turned full on,
She rolled
herself over until
The flames had
gone out.
With a Nurse's sense
of duty,
Led her to simply
change
Her clothing and
return
To finish the shifts
final four
Hours - it was
not until around
8 a.m. when she
informed
The day nurse of
her accident.
It was after this
that shock
Caught her and
Nurse Daly
Collapsed and
suddenly died.
An Inquest
recognised
The nurse’s sense
of duty
And her courage -
but raised
The question,
that another
Nurse could have
been
On that shift, to
have relieved
Elizabeth Daly,
allowing
Her to make a
recovery.
Possibly the
family had
Little or no
money,
To mark her grave
- to lay
At Grimsby
cemetery
Where a patch of grass
Marks her small place.
A hundred years
on
Was raised a
local call
To give a fitting
memorial
For an unsung
heroine.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Nurse's
Tragic Death. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 25 Feb. P.6. Col.5. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11432613/Daily-Telegraph-February-25-1915.html
[Accessed: 25 February 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 25 February 2015).
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