The British nurses and postbritánica in the hospital de Riotinto (1873-1983)

Since the purchase of the Riotinto mines by the Rio Tinto Rio Company Limited in 1873, the region actually became a British colony until 1954. The creation of a hospital to attend the English people was an example of its organization, although as time went by its staff would be Spanish. Some of the main targets of this study are to identify the British and the Spanish nurses who worked at the hospital, as well as to find out the kind of nursery craft and its influence on the Spanish professionals who worked there. By the moment we have identified not less than 36 British nurses (1873-1954), 13 male nurses and 11 Spanish female nurses (1954-1983). It seems that the Spanish nursery was not really in contact with its British precedent in the hospital, mucho more advanced as for organization and competence, but not for that its professional prestige was lower.