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Set of three ring binders containing outlines of 'district procedures' (i.e. for the Wandsworth and East Merton District Health Authority), both medical (e.g. 'Cardiac Arrest', 'Temperature (taking of)') and administrative (e.g. 'Patients' Property', 'Deceased Patients (Last Offices)'), arranged alphabetically (C-G, H-R, and S-W) and separated with dividers. Some relate to specific hospitals (St George's; Springfield). Each entry includes lists of 'dangers/special points and related action', principles, equipment, and 'key points'.

The spines of two of the binders are labelled 'District Procedures: Spares', indicating that multiple copies of these documents were kept for reference by hospital staff.

Loose exam papers dating from earlier periods than those in the library ring binders, including 20 General Nursing Council state papers (various subjects, 1937-1949), two St George's hospital papers (1939), one from the Surrey Education Committee (Home Nursing exam, 1914), and one from an unnamed institution ('Junior Nurses' Examination', 1949)

Set of index cards (separated with alphabetical dividers) listing and summarising articles about nursing libraries, including their use, development, and administration. Some of the cards have copies of typed abstracts affixed.

The final card contains a critical appraisal of the entire index: 'I appreciate the enormous industry and compulsive writing that has gone into this – the second largest bibliography I have received in 22 years – but, as you know, I have reservations about it […]'. These remarks are signed J. B. [James Brian] Tooley (11/2/87), who taught in the School of Librarianship at Ealing College of Higher Education, indicating that this bibliography was presumably compiled by a trainee librarian as coursework. It is unclear how it ended up being donated to St George's.

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

Report of the Royal College of Nursing's Nursing Reconstruction Committee, in four sections (though II and III are bound together in one booklet):

Section I: The Assistant Nurse
Section II: Education and Training
Section III: Recruitment
Section IV: The Social and Economic Conditions of the Nurse

Three sets of published Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), subtitled 'House of Commons Official Report', including:

Vol. 598, no 43 (26 Jan 1959): Mental Health Bill
Vol. 621, no 99 (14 Apr 1960): Nurses (Educational Qualification)
Vol. 767, no 145 (1 Jul 1968): Nurses and Midwives (Pay)

Printed regulations and amendments relating to the training and registration of nurses in New South Wales, Australia, under the Nurses Registration Act, 1953

Information booklets promoting careers in nursing (and the NHS more broadly), mostly produced by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information, and featuring photographic illustrations. Titles include:

• Choice of Careers: Nursing and Midwifery (Central Youth Employment Executive), 1965
• Coming into Nursing, nd [c.1970s]
• General Nursing, 1975
• Nursing at the present day (Nursing Recruitment Centre), nd [c.1945]
• Nursing for Men and Women (Careers in the Health Service 25), 1975
• Nursing the Mentally Ill: A profession for people who care, 1974
• Nursing – your new profession, 1975
• Psychiatric Nursing of mentally ill or mentally handicapped people, 1970
• There's a career for you in the National Health Service, 1975

Instruction and rule booklets/leaflets produced by St George's Hospital. Titles include:

• Home Rules for Nurses and Probationers [copy printed on photographic paper and mounted on board], nd
• Home Rules for Nurses and Probationers, 1909 [photocopy, c.2000s]
• Regulations for the Storage, Control and Administration of Medicines, Poisons, and Dangerous Drugs, 1960
• Regulations for the Storage, Control and Administration of Medicines, Poisons, Dangerous Drugs and Medical Gases, 1968
• Rules and Instructions for Maternity Students, 1932
• A Scheme for the Elementary Examination of Samples of Urine (written by Harold Spitta for Nurses' Clinical Pathology Course), 1938
• St George's Hospital, London, SW17 [patient information booklet], nd [c.1960s]
• Ward Instruction Book (Department of Chemical Pathology), 1963
• Ward Instruction Book (Department of Chemical Pathology), 1967

Three handbooks for St George's students and staff. Titles include:

• St George's District School of Nursing Introductory Course, c.1980
• St George's Hospital Staff Handbook, c.1970s
• St George's Hospital Nurses' Handbook: An invaluable compendium for young ladies & gentlemen wishing to care for wounded dragons & other invalids, 1974 [written by Vivien Lysaght (and other students?), with dragon illustration on cover]

Information booklets/leaflets produced by the Royal College of Nursing. Titles include:

• The Duties and Position of the Nurse, 1970
• The Enrolled Nurse, 1962
• Law Notes for Nurses (by S R. Speller), 1954
• A Library Guide for Schools of Nursing, 1962
• Observations and Objectives: A statement on nursing policy, 1956 [has ownership inscription: 'Miss O. Walden Jones']
• Nursing Libraries in Hospitals and Libraries in Schools of Nursing, c.1954
• The Nurses' and Midwives' Whitley Council, 1948 [1959 reprint]
• Views of Headquarters and Education Centres, nd [c.1950s – contains photographs]

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]

Information booklets produced by the Ministry/Department of Health or relating to the NHS. Titles include:

• National Health Service Superannuation Scheme: An Explanation, 1956
• Patients' Rights: A guide for NHS patients and doctors [produced by the National Consumer Council], 1983
• The Senior Nursing Organisation in Hospitals: An introduction to the Report of the Salmon Committee, 1969

Information booklets/handbooks relating to courses taught at/with Kingston, including:

• Kingston and Richmond School of Nursing: Pupil Nurses – Course D booklet, 1979-1980 [2 versions]
• Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences [Kingston University & St George's Hospital Medical School]
• Integrating Study HBG 3040Y course handbook, 2001

Various versions of the prospectus for St George's Hospital School of Nursing, including six variant copies of an illustrated brochure and seven accompanying paper booklets (for the years 1955-1957, 1958-1959, 1960-1963, and 1966-1967 – two of these are enclosed at the back of the brochures).

Although all of the booklets date from the period in which Muriel Powell was Matron, the earliest brochure refers to her predecessor Helen Hanks, who resigned in 1947.

Includes two versions of a full-colour prospectus for the expanded St George's District School of Nursing (which had by the 1980s incorporated St James' and Bolingbroke hospitals) and a comb-bound paper booklet about the '16-18 Caring Scheme' run jointly with South West London College.

The 1989 School of Nursing prospectus discusses Project 2000, a scheme within which trainee nurses would be given 'full student status similar to students in universities, polytechnics and colleges'.

Leaflets detailing post-basic courses offered by St George's Hospital, including courses in operating theatre technique and management, medical and surgical cardio-thoracic nursing, and intensive therapy and coronary care nursing. No dates are mentioned, but they pre-date the closure of the Hyde Park Corner site (ergo c.1960s-1970s).

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.

Two versions of a booklet about the honours degree course in human biology with nursing option offered by the new University of Surrey (still Battersea College of Technology at the time of the first booklet – 1965) in conjunction with St George's Hospital

Prospectuses for other nursing schools at hospitals in the Surrey area, including Croydon General Hospital Training School for Nurses, Sutton General Hospital School for Enrolled Nurse Training, and Warlingham Park Hospital School of Nursing

Green folder containing coursework submitted by Heidi Downes for the 'Introduction to Health Promotion in Midwifery Practice' as part of the BSc/Dip HE Midwifery course taught at the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences at Kingston University. In addition to Downes's essay and cover sheet, the folder contains a set of NHS resources to promote breastfeeding, including DVD ('From Bump to Breastfeeding'), cotton bag, pen, key ring, and various booklets, leaflets, information sheets and flyers.

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

Items donated by/relating to Mary Frayling (née Leaning), including:

• postcard from assistant matron Grace Hickie, Dec 1945
• Christmas cards (including from St George's Nurses' League), c.1960s-1980s
• three St George's Day evensong service programmes, 1974-1980
• Country Life article on 'Future of St George's Hospital' by Marcus Binney, 11 Nov 1976
• correspondence from J. A. Leeves (Nurses' League treasurer) and Olive Walden Jones, 1979-1980
• invitation and programmes for St George's 250th anniversary thanksgiving service, 1983
• press cuttings about redevelopment of St George's Hyde Park Corner site as hotel, 1980s-1990s
• photocopied extract from 'Home from Sea' by Joy Packer, nd
• identification badge worn at reunion, nd

Items donated by Rosemary Freestone (née Terry), including:

• three St George's Day evensong service programmes, 1956-1975
• exhibition catalogue for St George's 250th anniversary exhibition, 1983
• programme for 250th anniversary thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey (with taped-in press cutting), 1983

Items donated by/relating to Elaine Frew (née Bursnell), including:

• envelopes containing St George's offer letter with accompanying correspondence (signed by Muriel Powell) and details of entry, 1959-1960
• Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1961-1963
• St George's School of Nursing Library membership card, c. 1961
• programme for Evensong and Dedication of Altar Frontal at Hyde Park Corner, 12 Jun 1961
• preliminary state examination card, 1962
• St George's Hospital cloth badge, c.1960s
• letter to Frew from Heather Bond of St George's Nurses' League, 14 May 1999