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2 + 1 course registers

Registers relating to the 2 + 1 course for student nurses. The 2 + 1 course was an extension of the 'experimental course' trialled in the mid-1960s (see NU/1/1/20): it involved a condensed two years of training followed by an intern year leading to registration. According to the oral history interview with Joan Clague (Chief Nursing Officer at the time: see NU/7/2/1), 'from the Autumn of ’69… the whole intake for registration went over to the 2 + 1', including graduate entrants. As it became the default pathway for students, the term '2 + 1' is not used consistently in the registers, and seems to have been gradually phased out by the 1980s (as course lengths continued to be experimented with for different student streams, e.g. '118 week course' and '166 week course').

The registers contain records of student attendance and assessment for different sections of the course (paediatrics, medicine, surgery, obstetrics, psychiatry, neurosurgery, etc), including placements at other hospitals (see name access points for list); they generally have additional typed documents (timetables, lecture lists, exam questions, allocation lists, etc) taped in. A majority also contain class photographs; Some also contain photographs and lists of student details/qualifications. The date ranges are as follows:

Sep 1969 – Oct 1971 [bulging with taped-in notes/documents – spine has cracked]
Mar 1970 – Feb 1972 [oversize; includes photograph]
Sep 1970 – Apr 1971 ['2 + 1 students: Sept 1970 set, Stage I']
Mar 1971 – Aug 1972 ['Mar 1971 Entry + Revision'; oversize; includes photograph]
Apr 1971 – Oct 1972 ['2 + 1 students: Sept 1970 set, Stage II']
Sep 1971 – Oct 1973
Sep 1974 – Aug 1982 [register of completion dates for candidates, but reverse of book also contains lists of applications relating to student residence (?), 1967-1972; cover is detached]
Mar 1977 – Oct 1979
Sep 1979 – Jul 1982
Nov 1979 – Jan 1981
Jul 1980 – Jul 1983
Apr 1981 – Sep 1984
Jul 1982 – May 1985
Oct 1984 – Oct 1987
Sep 1985 – Sep 1988

Amy Cherington, [No age stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: n/a
Date of death: 26 Aug 1894
Disease (transcribed): Surgical kidney - Alcoholism
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidney); Alcoholism (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Elliott, Harry Scott
Medical notes: 'Died at Atkinson Morley Hospital [...] Admitted March 16 1894 - For 6 months has had shooting pains in front of leg and thigh of both legs - No paralysis but weaks about ankles, no pins and needles but numbess of finger tips has existed 6 months. On admission, aspect and voice suggest excessive alcohol'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Annual report of St George's Hospital, and of Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Hospital

Full title: Annual report of St George's Hospital, and of Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Hospital, For the Benefit of Poor Patients from St George's Hospital, For the year 1894, with A List of the Governors & Subscribers and Statement of Receipts and Expenditure'. Printed by McCorquodale & Co., Limited, Cardington Street, NW London, 1895.

Includes a list of governors and subscribers, legacies left to the hospital and trust funds since 1733.

Architectural plans

Three folded architectural plans produced by the firm of W. H. Watkins, Gray & Partners (aka Watkins Gray), depicting the following:

i) Tooting Grove Experimental Ward: 30 Bed Ward Unit, 5 Nov 1963
ii) Tooting Grove 30 Bed Experimental Ward Unit: Joinery Details - Cleaner's room, hinged shelves & seats, 9 Jul 1964
iii) Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon: Rehabilitation Centre – Floor plan at level 91.00, Jul 1964

Atkinson Morley's Hospital

Records relating to nursing training at Atkinson Morley's Hospital. Note that AMH was always affiliated to St George's (beginning as a convalescent home for St George's patients), and that in the post-war period trainee nurses from St George's routinely undertook placements there to gain experience in neurosurgical nursing. Researchers interested in AMH should therefore also consult the general St George's registers sub-series (NU/1/1).

Atkinson Morley's Hospital

Black and white and colour photographs of Atkinson Morley's (Convalescent) Hospital buildings and nurses, including the entrance, Possil House (the nurses' residence), hospital wards (including Brodie ward), a bar, and scenes from a concert/theatrical performance in 1935 (annotated and signed E. P. Good on the reverse).

Atkinson Morley's Hospital

Includes two versions of a prospectus booklet (one for state registered and one for state enrolled nurses) for the course in neurosurgical and neurological nursing at Atkinson Morley's Hospital and a brochure about the Wolfson Medical Rehabilitation Centre (part of the Atkinson Morley site); the latter has a reprinted 1967 article from the British Hospital Journal & Social Service Review inserted.

Audio cassettes

46 audio cassettes of recordings of Nurses' League conferences, debates, and related events/interviews. Topics include Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Agenda for Change, the development of nursing in Gaza (Palestine), ICP stroke, Muriel Powell, etc.

Charles Dye, 70, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 70
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Aug 1894
Date of death: 20 Aug 1894
Disease (transcribed): Gastritis. Exhaustion
Disease (standardised): Gastritis (Stomach); Exhaustion (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Haward, John Warrington
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Jaffrey, Francis
Medical notes: 'Patient came to the hospital for an operation for polypus of the rectum which Mr Haward removed on July 21st he then went to the A.M.C.H. [Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital]. On August 1st when in the hospital he said he had suffered from indigestion for a long time but had been much worse within the last 6 months, he cannot masticate his food on account of the few teeth he has left'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Charles Sreeves, 59, Plasterer

Occupation or role: Plasterer
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Aug 1891
Date of death: 16 Aug 1891
Disease (transcribed): Locomotor ataxia
Disease (standardised): Tabes dorsalis (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Dr Olsen
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'Died at the Atkinson-Morley Convalescent Hospital. This man was a native of Warwickshire, but his peculiar surname was stated to be of remote Indian origin. He had been robust, a total abstained from alcohol till the age of 39, and afterwards a very moderate drinker. There was no history of syphilis, and none of plumbism, and his personal experience of rheumatism was limited to a slight attack 10 years before his death and another 7 years later. About the middle of January 1891 on a very cold day he became thoroughly chilled. From this feeling of coldness he never entirely recovered, the hands & feet remaining numbed. Difficulty of walking was noticed later, and a sensation of ‘tightness round the stomach'. He became an out-patient of this hospital on May 15th'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, head, spinal cord

Type of incident: n/a

Emma Howe, 39, Nurse

Occupation or role: Nurse
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Feb 1881
Date of death: 10 Feb 1881
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Intestinal ulcer in connection with a small abscess
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Ulcer (Intestines); Abscess (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Haward, John Warrington and Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson
Medical notes: 'This woman suffered amputation of the foot for extensive disease of the tarsus on Sep 9th 1880. No antiseptics were used. There was but little traumatic fever and the wound did well. At times the discharge was a little offensive from it. She was sent to AMCH [Atkinson Morley Convalescent Home and Hospital] with the stump all but healed on October the 6th'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines, peritoneum, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Emma Sherwood, 46, Charwoman

Occupation or role: Charwoman
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 May 1887
Date of death: 1 Jul 1887
Disease (transcribed): Morbus cordis. Granular kidney
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Vernon, Arthur Heygate
Medical notes: 'From Wimbledon [Atkinson Morley Hospital] [...] The patient was a widow, who had enjoyed good health until about 1 year before admission’
Type of incident: n/a

Experimental course registers

Registers relating to the 'New Experiment in Nursing Education', aka the 'experimental course', which ran for a few years in the mid-1960s, and attempted to give the nursing curriculum a more systematic theoretical foundation based on the human life course (paediatrics, obstetrics, geriatrics, etc). It subsequently evolved into the '2+1' course (see NU/1/1/21).

The registers record student attendance at lectures, tutorials, visits, clinical conferences, study days, etc (including psychiatric nursing training at Atkinson Morley and West Park hospitals), as well as examination results. The date ranges and titles of the registers are as follows:

Nov 1965 – Sep 1967 ['New Experiment in Nursing Education']
Sep 1966 – Apr 1968 ['Record of Nursing Tutorials – Experimental Course']
Nov 1966 – Jul 1968 ['New Experiment in Nursing Education: Group II']
Nov 1967 – Oct 1969 ['Experimental Course']

George Francis, 10, [Child of] Labourer

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Dec 1886
Date of death: 22 Jun 1887
Disease (transcribed): Caries of femur. Pelvic abscess
Disease (standardised): Caries (Thigh); Abscess (Pelvis)
Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Bull, William Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: des Voeux, Harold Antoine
Medical notes: 'This child was originally admitted into the hospital with a haemaloma on the left thigh which suppurated. This was opened & he did well & was eventually sent to Wimbledon [Atkinson Morley Hospital]. While there symptoms of abdominal obstruction came on & he was sent back to St George's on Dec 12 1886'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

James Holland, 45, Cabdriver

Occupation or role: Cabdriver
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Mar 1918
Date of death: 16 Mar 1918
Disease (transcribed): Old-standing tuberculous disease of left hip joint. Excision & amputation. Lardaceous disease. Suppurative myositis around left hip & of left psoas & iliacus muscles
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Hip); Amputation (Hip); Amyloidosis (Kidneys); Myositis (Muscles); Suppuration (Muscles)
Admitted under the care of: Fedden, Walter Fedde
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Claremont, Hetty Ethelberta
Medical notes: '23 years ago excision of left hip. 1914 sinuses ever since. Scraped. 1917. IP [in-patient] still discharging. Leg wasted. Lordosis. Sent to Wimbledon [Atkinson Morley Hospital]. Oct 1917. ISQ [in status quo]. Amputation through the hip-joint by Mr Fedden [Walter Fedde Fedden]. Much pus found. Drained. Sent to Wimbledon. Mar 13, 1918. Returned from Wimbledon. 3 weeks previously the right foot and both scrota began to swell’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John McKibbin, 40, Painter

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Jul 1888
Date of death: 7 Oct 1888
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of the pyloric end of stomach
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient had worked with lead, but had never had any symptoms of plumbium. He suffered much from diarrhoea and in March 1888 he came to St George’s Hospital. His bowels he said acted 8 times a day, and he had pain after food. He was examined by Mr Dent [Clinton Thomas Dent] who found that the internal sphincter of his anus was tight and thick. The diarrhoea ceased and the patient was sent to Wimbledon [Atkinson Morley Hospital] April 21st (See notes 1888 No 349)’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, kidneys, thorax, heart

Type of incident: n/a

'Life and Work of a Hospital Matron' shoot

Set of black and white photographs in a series entitled 'Life and Work of a Hospital Matron', taken by photographer Tom L. Blau of Camera Press, c.1950. The series follows Muriel Powell on her daily rounds across the various sites managed by St George's, including Hyde Park Corner, Atkinson Morley Hospital, the Preliminary Training School at Earl's Court, Northumberland House, Possil House, an operating theatre, the Nurses' Council, kitchens, hospital wards, shots of outdoor recreation, etc. Also includes typescript and photocopy of an accompanying text by Blau (which states that the photographs were 'first used in Woman's Journal, Apr 1953') and a photocopy of one of the photographs annotated with names.

The prints have copyright stamps on the reverse, and most of them also have captions affixed; some have also been marked up for cropping.

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