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Annelise Federschmidt

Items donated by/relating to Annelise Federschmidt (née Gottstein), including:

  • St George's nursing prospectus with accompanying envelope, 1948
  • St George's Hospital record of training, 1949
  • white nurse's belt signed by fellow students and staff, c.1949-1950
  • green St George's Hospital button, c.1940s-1950s
  • typed minutes of meeting of the Sisters' Committee, 11 Oct 1956 (welcoming Sister Gottstein as a member)
  • St George's Sisters' Christmas dinner menu, 1956
  • letter from Federschmidt to Heather Bond (honorary secretary of St George's Nurses' League), 18 Oct 2002

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

Articles and other writings

Copies of articles and other miscellaneous writings, including:

  • 'Copy of a Report dated 17 Oct 1928, made by Miss L. W. Wamsley, Ministry of Health Inspector' [institution inspected not named]
  • 'The Sister as a Teacher' by M. J. Penfold, c.1960 [photocopied from St George's Nurses' League Journal, vol. 1 no 8]
  • 'As Time Goes By' by Margaret Worsfold, 1980 [biographical article about her husband Harold Worsfold, who worked as a male nurse at institutions including St James' Hospital, Balham]
  • 'Nurses' Window', nd [short description of a stained glass window in the chapel of St James' Hospital, subsequently transferred to St George's]
  • 'Ode to a Bedpan', nd [unsigned handwritten comic poem, c. 1930s-1950s?]

Articles and papers

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

Articles on euthanasia

Group of nine articles/papers on the subject of euthanasia (mostly reprints for Documentation in Medical Ethics), written from both medical and religious perspectives

Artworks

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

Assistant/pupil nurses

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

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.

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