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Registers relating to pupil nurses at Surbiton General Hospital. The registers take various formats, but generally record the following information: name, date of birth, index number, address, next of kin, previous training, date of preliminary training school, and date of assessment/completion. Additional typed pages listing dates of ward experience have been taped in, and later items of correspondence relating to references have been inserted.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Sep 1961 – Oct 1968
Jan 1965 – Sep 1972 ['Nurses in Training' – attendance register with details of lectures/study days]
Oct 1968 – Apr 1973
Jan 1972 – Sep 1974
May 1974 – Sep 1975

Four binders of student nurse training records, separated with alphabetical dividers. The records vary in form: those in the first volume include only name, age, dates of ward experience and leave, and dates of exam passes and any prizes; those in the remaining volumes also include address, index number, next of kin, religion, and remarks (but omit the ward experience details).

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

1940-1960 [note that this binder is in a larger format than the other three]
1940-1969 [though label on spine incorrectly states 'to Dec 1961']
1961-1970
1970-1974

Two registers labelled 'Preliminary Training School [PTS] Register' (with date ranges of 1945-1956 and 1957-1960) containing lists of lecture/practical class topics, attendance registers, lists of exam results, student details, and reports

Two registers of students at the Epsom School of Nursing (with date ranges 1950-1968 and 1969-1971), containing the following information: name, address, date/place of birth, registration/index number, and dates of training/assessment.

Document produced by the architectural firm Watkins Gray with the full title 'New Teaching Hospital and Associated Medical, Dental and Pre-clinical Schools at Tooting, SW17 for the Board of Governors, St George's Hospital, SW1: Phasing and Allocation of Expenditure' (Jun 1966) containing projected costs (broken down into three phases) of building the new hospital.

Printed reports/information booklets produced by the Ministry/Department of Health, including:

• Report on the Committee on Senior Nursing Staff Structure, 1966 [aka the Salmon Report – Joyce Whitehead's personal copy, covered in sellotape, annotated, and with various supplementary documents inserted]
• Outline and Recommendations of the Report of the Committee on Senior Nursing Staff Structure, 1966
• The Senior Nursing Organisation in Hospitals: An Introduction to the Report of the Salmon Committee, 1969
• Progress on Salmon: A Report by the Department of Health and Social Security and Welsh Office, c.1972

Annotated copies of tables forecasting the nursing establishment at St George's (i.e. number of nurses by grade) for 1967-1969, with accompanying tables of nursing personnel allocated to units and sections

Copies of articles and conference papers discussing the implementation of the Salmon Report and the future of nursing more broadly, including:

• a series of 'occasional papers' published in the Nursing Times, 1966-1969 (authors include Muriel Powell and Joyce Whitehead)
• papers from a 1970 conference on 'Harmony in Management: Salmon and Cogwheel' (and other conferences from the early 1980s)
• tribute/interview with Powell from the Nursing Mirror, 1976
• article reflecting on 'The reality of Salmon' ten years on, 1976

Carbon copies of documents relating to a GNC [General Nursing Council] inspection of nurse training schools in the Kingston Group by a Miss M. G. Gardener, including:

• GNC form applying for Surbiton Hospital training school (with the addition of Barnes and Tolworth hospitals) to be admitted to the roll of nurses, Mar 1966
• Report on routine visit to obstetric nurse training school at Kingston Hospital (with cover letter), Jul 1967
• Reports on visits to the teaching departments at Surbiton/Barnes (with cover letter), Aug-Oct 1967
• Report on visit to Kingston Hospital, Sep 1967

Two lecture fee claim forms for lectures to St George's nursing students

Documents relating to the post-registration paediatric course at St George's, including:

• study day unit timetables
• plans of training and outlines of study units
• correspondence between tutor J. Styles, Olive Walden Jones (Principal Nursing Officer, Education Division), and others
• notes on ward allocations
• Braidwood Audiology Unit travelling directions
• General Nursing Council index form
• GNC scheme of training
• lists of fees and costings
• lists of entrants to course

Includes:

• St George's Hospital Nurses' League Minute Book, 1951-1985
• letter from Honorary Secretary Ann M. Hewson (Dec 1985) about the closure of the League, enclosing typed minutes for the 1985 Autumn meeting (with related correspondence, 1985-1986)

Nurses' League Journal nos 1-16 (1952-1975) and unnumbered issues for 1978 and 1983. A 1988 letter from Ann M. Hewson has been inserted into the 1964 issue.

Photographs collected by or donated to the Nurses' League, including:

• 2 albums of black and white group photographs of trainee nurse cohorts, annotated with surnames, 1952-1977
• envelope of colour photographs 'taken during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new [Tooting] hospital', with names written on the reverse, c.1963-1964
• colour photographs of a Nurses' League reunion party, Nov 1987
• album of colour photographs of meetings of the re-established Nurses' League, annotated with names, 1989-1992 [oversize]
• two black and white photographs of staff nurse Gaynor Arney and senior outpatients nurse Wendy Miller lighting a candle to mark the relaunch of the Nurses' League, c.1989
• glassine bag labelled 'From Sue Hawkins 17.2.04' containing colour photographs of an event to commemorate Atkinson Morley Hospital, c.2003
• Kodak wallet of colour photographs (with Picture CD) of an event to commemorate Muriel Powell held in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, 2004
• 2 yellow slide boxes containing colour slides of Atkinson Morley Hospital buildings, wards and grounds, 1974
• blue slide box containing black and white and colour slides of nurses, hospital wards [at Atkinson Morley?], vehicles, buildings, maps, etc., c.1970s-1980s [but including reproductions of images c.1940s]
• set of negatives labelled 'Nurses' League Meeting, Autumn 1990'
• miscellaneous personal photographs of Sheilagh Hall, Lulu Cassells and Grace Brooks (née Brinsley), and a Nursing Times photograph of nurses with tennis rackets, c.1950s-2013

Artworks collected by or donated to the Nurses' League, including:

• framed print (plus unframed copy) of engraving of St George's in 1745, originally engraved c.1870 and reissued on the 150th anniversary of the hospital, c.1983
• framed watercolour by Joyce M. Parker of St George's, Tooting (the old Grove Hospital building), 1981
• framed pencil drawing by Mary Gliddon of Muriel Powell studying as a nursing student, 1937 [unclear if it was drawn from observation at this date or retrospectively imagined]
• framed painting by B. [?] Hibbert entitled 'Night Nurse', depicting a nurse at a desk in a ward (inspired by memories of Bristol Royal Infirmary, according to an inscription on the reverse), Jul 1987
• two ink cartoons by 'Elliott' and one page of ink cartoons by Walter West depicting hospital patients and staff, c.1955
• signed print (rolled in poster tube) of 'St George's Then & Now', an ink/watercolour painting by Audrey Hammond, commissioned by the Nurses' League in 1993, with accompanying explanatory leaflet

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.

Personal artefacts presumably donated to the League by nurses, including:

• 3 metal badges (St George's Hospital, RLOH [Royal Liverpool Orthopaedic Hospital?] cross, IHNCF [Inter-Hospital Nurses' Christian Fellowship]), c.20th century
• items of cotton/lace nurses' uniforms: 4 belts, 2 cuffs, 5 caps/collars [?], c.20th century

Two copies (one a stapled booklet, the other bound into a hardback – both with St George's Library stamps) of privately printed memoir with preface by J. Howell Jones and foreword by Joyce M. Parker

Booklets produced by various nursing organisations including the General Nursing Council, the National Council of Nurses, the Nurses and Midwives Council, the International Council of Nurses, and the Nurses' Insurance Society. Titles include:

• Constitution of the National Council of Nurses of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, 1949 [2 copies]
• Exchange of Privileges for Nurses (International Council of Nurses), 1955
• The General Nursing Council for England and Wales: 1919-1969, c.1969
• Nurses and Midwives Council Circular No 30: Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain), 1953
• The Nurses' Insurance Society: Additional Benefits [flyer], c.1939-1940
• Rules framed by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales, 1924 (amended 1931)
• What you should know about the National Council of Nurses of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, nd [c.1950s]

General Nursing Council syllabuses/schedules relating to assistant/pupil nurses, including:

• Training Syllabus for Admission to the Roll of Assistant Nurses, 1949 [1960 reprint]
• Training of Pupil Assistant Nurses for Enrolment by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales: Schedule of Practical Ward Work and Ward Instruction in Nursing Observations and General Nursing Care, reprinted 1955

General Nursing Council syllabuses for mental deficiency/subnormality [note: these are historical terms] nursing training, including:

• Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of Mental Deficiency Nursing, 1952
• Training Syllabus for Admission to the Roll of Nurses: Mental Subnormality Nursing, revised 1977

General Nursing Council syllabus entitled 'Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of Nursing Sick Children' [two copies, one with minor pencil annotations]

Typed and annotated lecture notes (stamped 'Kingston County Hospital, Kingston-on-Thames') on nursing subjects, including artificial feeding, bedmaking, baths, enemas, etc.

Plastic slide box containing 17 colour slides – apparently a commercially produced set – of patients in hospital beds (each image numbered and labelled with the patient's condition), and a further two slides of diagrams of the human heart (labelled 'St James' Hospital Photographic Department').

Note that the St James' slides were originally loose in the collection, but have been added to this slide box by the archivist for convenience of storage: no direct connection with the other slides should be inferred.

Items donated by/relating to Patricia Cobb, including:

• correspondence between Cobb and St George's Chief Nurse Judy Anderson about donating prints of the hospital, Jul 1999
• 6 prints/engravings (mixture of originals and facsimiles) of the St George's Hospital building at Hyde Park Corner, c.19th-20th century [one is dated 1831]
• press cuttings about the Lanesborough Hotel, including a photograph of the building and a restaurant review by Jonathan Meades, c.1980s-1992