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Records relating to the administration of nursing training, hospital management (at both St George's and Kingston), or related activities

Artefacts relating to nursing (or hospitals more generally), including clothing, badges/medals, medical equipment, and souvenirs.

For photographs of how some of these items were previously displayed in Grosvenor Wing, St George's Hospital, see the green ring binder (NU/8/6).

The collection consists of artworks and photographs, a manuscript lecture written by Wilson and subsequent correspondence and documentation relating to Wilson. Artworks and photographs include those produced by Edward Wilson himself and by Herbert Ponting during the Antarctic expeditions (Discovery, 1901-1904 and Terra Nova, 1910-1911/1913), and by Mike Stroud, following in Wilson’s footsteps in 1984-1986. The collection also includes a draft manuscript lecture given by Wilson at the Hunterian Society, St George’s Hospital and Medical School, in 1904 on the Discovery expedition.

Printed materials (some originally from the St George's School of Nursing Library) and other reference resources, including books, published reports, syllabuses, newsletters, magazines, procedural manuals, typed lecture notes, etc.

Materials relating to the Nurses' Voices oral history project, undertaken by Carol McCubbin and Kath Start at Kingston University, 2003-2010

Includes

• Papers relating to the International Centre for Drug Policy
• Personal certificates, appraisals, CVs
• Obituaries
• Papers relating to courses and conferences including reports, reviews, manuals
• Publications
• Correspondence
• Photographs
• Reports by Alexander Hosie on opium production in China

A collection of personal papers including lecture notes, correspondence, meeting agenda’s and minutes, publications (both by Harold Lambert and collected by him), medical training notes, exam papers and reference cards. The topics covered are mainly infectious diseases and infections, including smallpox, whooping cough, meningitis and pneumonia among others.

The collection relates to Hunter’s dispute with St George’s Hospital and the division of pupils’ fees among the surgeons, which Hunter perceived as unfair, arguing he brought in more pupils than the other surgeons. The dispute culminated in a meeting in Oct 1793 at the hospital, during which Hunter suffered a heart attack and died.

In addition to the papers relating to the dispute, there are some additional notes, some collected by Charles Hawkins and some by George Edwards. These include copies of two letters from John Hunter’s pupil James Williams to his sister, describing working with Hunter, dissections and the work of the so-called ‘Resurrection Men’, and describing Hunter’s death. These were acquired apparently from a descendant of Williams by Edwards; the location of the original letters is unknown.

Prescott Hewett was appointed the first curator of the museum in the 1840s, and he also introduced the practice of keeping post mortem books. The curator of the museum was also responsible for conducting post mortem examinations together with the assistant curator, and the post mortem casebooks frequently refer to pathological specimens preserved in the museum. Specimens were regularly obtained from post mortem examinations or during surgery at the hospital, and the museum has continued to be an integral part of teaching at St George's.

The first printed museum catalogue was published in 1866, edited by John William Ogle and Timothy Holmes. This was apparently based on a scheme by Henry Gray, which however has not survived.

The museum was rearranged in 1881, and a new numbering system was adopted. In 1882, a supplementary catalogue, edited by Isambard Owen, was published.

Additionally, two manuscript catalogues exist, the first one covering the years 1884-1899, and the second one 1900-c.1917.

The so-called ‘Green books’ include ‘historical specimens’, numbered 1-101 and introduce a new classification based on diseases.

Personal papers and memorabilia relating to former St George's nurses, some of whom were also interviewed for the Nurses' Voices oral history project (see NU/7).

The papers have been arranged approximately alphabetically by (married) name; at the end of the series, items with no name attached ('Additional material') have been grouped by document type.

Photographs relating to nursing or hospitals