Ida F. Butler

Ida F. Butler
Miss Ida F. Butler in 1919
Born(1868-03-18)March 18, 1868
Watertown, New York[1]
DiedNovember 3, 1949(1949-11-03) (aged 81)
Hartford, Connecticut[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHartford Hospital Nursing School
OccupationAmerican Red Cross nurse

Ida de Fatio Butler (March 18, 1868 – March 11, 1949) was an American nurse.[1] She graduated from the Hartford Hospital Nursing School in 1901.[2]

Butler organized two hospitals in France[3] during World War I.[4] In 1918 she organized the Hospital for Acute Diseases of Children in Lyons, France.[5]

From 1936 to 1939 Butler was the National Nursing Director for the American Red Cross.[2][6] In January 1937, she was responsible for sending 3,600 nurses from the Red Cross to deal with the aftermath of a flood.[7] She was the fifteenth American recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international distinction for nurses and granted to those who have made exceptional contributions to their profession, with which she was honored in 1937.[8][9]

She died in West Hartford, Connecticut.[10][11]

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  2. ^ a b "Ida F. Butler, Red Cross Nurse · Hartford Women in World War I · Digital History 511: Theory & Practice". library.ccsu.edu.
  3. ^ "Miss Ida F. Butler Is Presented Nursing Medal". The Charlotte News. North Carolina, Charlotte. Associated Press. 4 June 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Obituary for Ida F. Butler (Aged 80)". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 12 March 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  5. ^ Noyes, Clara (February 1920). "Appointments". The American Journal of Nursing. 20 (5): 399. JSTOR 3405330.
  6. ^ "News from the Field". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 28 (10): 1260–1268. October 1938. doi:10.2105/AJPH.28.10.1260.
  7. ^ "Miss Ida F. Butler Is Presented Nursing Medal". The Charlotte News. North Carolina, Charlotte. Associated Press. 4 June 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "News about Nursing: About People You Know". The American Journal of Nursing. 37 (7). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: 802. July 1937. ISSN 0002-936X. JSTOR 3413368.
  9. ^ Wanga, Qian; Zhua, Rui-Fang; Duan, Zhi-Guang (2018). "The historical evolution of the regulations for the Florence Nightingale Medal". Frontiers of Nursing. 5 (1). Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter: 1–5. doi:10.1515/fon-2018-0005. ISSN 2544-8994. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  10. ^ "The Red Cross Courier". American National Red Cross. 1948.
  11. ^ Carry on. The League. 1949.