Editing Edith Cavell (section)

==Work in Belgium==
In 1907, Cavell was recruited by [[Antoine Depage|Dr. Antoine Depage]], the Belgian royal surgeon, and the founder and president of the Belgian [[Red Cross]], to be matron of a newly established nursing school, L'École Belge d'Infirmières Diplômées (or the Berkendael Medical Institute) on the Rue de la Culture (now Rue Franz Merjay), in [[Ixelles]], Brussels.{{sfn|Judson|1941}} By 1910, "Miss Cavell 'felt that the profession of nursing had gained sufficient foothold in Belgium to warrant the publishing of a professional journal' and launched the nursing journal, ''L'infirmière''".{{sfn|Judson|1941}} Within a year, she was training nurses for three hospitals, twenty-four schools, and thirteen kindergartens in Belgium.

Cavell was offered a position as matron in a Brussels clinic. She worked closely with Depage, who was part of a "growing body of people" in the medical profession in Belgium. He realised that the care that was being provided by the religious institutions had not been keeping up with medical advances. In 1910, Cavell was asked if she would be the matron for the new secular hospital at [[Saint-Gilles, Belgium|Saint-Gilles]].{{sfn|Daunton|1990|p=3}}

When the First World War broke out, Cavell was visiting her widowed mother in Norfolk. She returned to Brussels, where her clinic and nursing school were taken over by the [[Red Cross]].