District nurses with their bicycles, Willesden District Nursing Association, 15 Park Avenue, Willesden Green, Greater London
A group of the Queen’s District Nurses, equipped with white bands and gas masks, setting out on their bicycles to visit their patients. The Willesden District Nursing Association, staffed by 21 nurses, paid 73,000 visits to patients in the borough in 1939. More than a third of these visits were free; despite declining subscriptions the Association was financially secure. It was not until the introduction of the NHS that free health care became available to everyone.
