Dame Agnes Hunt
Dame Agnes Hunt a British nurse, who is generally recognised as the first orthopaedic nurse.
She opened a convalescent home, the Baschurch Children's hospital, for crippled children .
Dame Agnes teamed up with Robert Jones the military surgeon . . By 1907, they had built an operating theatre and they introduced the diagnostic use of X-rays in 1913. The home treated wounded soldiers in the First World War.
In 1919 renamed the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital the facility moved to Park Hall, its present day site.
