Abstract
Summary In the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, rapid industrialisation since the late nineteenth century raised awareness of multiple public health issues, most urgently the wide spread of tuberculosis among the working population. Representatives of Luxembourg’s steel elite made use of private welfare organisations in order to implement their vision of public health philanthropy. Focusing on the introduction of visiting nurses in the early 1920s, this article discusses how Luxembourg appropriated new ideas and practices of public health that circulated globally in the wake of WWI. Young women were sent abroad to receive a nursing education. After their return to Luxembourg, the professional experience of these visiting nurses was characterised by hard work in anti-tuberculosis and infant dispensaries. While bringing the latest public health innovations to Luxembourg, the industrial philanthropy subjugated the nursing apparatus to private interests and forged and stabilised socio-economic patterns that worked to the advantage of the steel industry.
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