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Epsom, Kingston, etc. album

Black/brown album labelled 'Epsom Hospital / Kingston Hospital / Queen Mary's Hosp.' containing black and white photographs of nurses, doctors, child patients, hospital buildings and Christmas/recreational gatherings at Epsom District Hospital (1943-1952), Kingston County Hospital, Cassel Hospital (Summer School, 1950), and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children (1952-1954), as well as other personal and holiday photographs (of Oban/Arran, Cornwall, Somerset, Egypt, etc).

Most of the pages are annotated with captions (including mention of the children's specific diseases), although the identity of the album's creator remains unclear.

'A London Assistant Nurse Training School' series

Set of black and white photographs in a series entitled 'A London Assistant Nurse Training School', taken for the Ministry of Health in 1958 and issued by the Central Office of Information, with explanatory captions affixed to the reverse of each print. They include shots of pupil assistant nurses studying and interacting with patients.

The box these photographs are stored in is labelled 'Complete Set of Photographs: Grove Hospital 1958' (with a note stating that it was 'found during [a] clear out', 1997), indicating that they were taken at the Grove Hospital site, which was by 1958 the Tooting branch of St George's. The box also contains six photographs of an ambulance which, while also seemingly taken at Tooting, do not appear to belong to the 'Assistant Nurse' set.

Booklets and magazines

Booklets and magazines, including:

  • Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculous Disease and of Typhoid Fever (St John Ambulance Association), 1913
  • Genito-Urinary Nursing by H. G. Cummine, 1972
  • Hints to Mothers on the Treatment of their Children, fifteenth edition, nd [c.1930s-1940s? – published to promote Steedman's Powders, which contained mercury]
  • Nursing Mirror and Midwives' Journal, 20 Aug 1949
  • The Nursing Process by Jean Crow, 1977 [ownership inscription: 'Karlene Chambers']
  • The "Verisan" Home Medical Guide and Year Book, 1940 [with accompanying wrapper with post-it notes affixed: 'for Julia from Jane S.' and 'Jane […] All my love, Dad']

Fisk, Dorothy: Doctor Jenner of Berkeley

Publisher: Heinemann, London
Ownership inscription: JC [John Charles] McEntee, '60
Bookplate: 'From the library of Charles McEntee (1900-1969) of McEntee Ward, Superintendent of the Grove Fever Hospital (1939-1952) / Consultant in Infectious Diseases, St George's Hospital (1952-1966)'

A press cutting about Benjamin Jesty ('Dorset Farmer who was early pioneer of vaccination for smallpox') has been inserted.

Registers and training records

Registers and training records relating to nurses who trained or worked at St George's and other hospitals in Wandsworth (most of which were subsequently absorbed into St George's), Surrey (connected to St George's indirectly via the affiliation with Kingston) and South West London

Grove Hospital

Reproduction of a single black and white photograph of a group of staff and patients (holding a banner from '4B ward') outside the Grove Hospital, Tooting.

Note that this image dates from before the Grove was absorbed into St George's in the 1950s (but after it had dropped the 'Fever' from its original name of Grove Fever Hospital); for later images of the Grove site in its St George's era, see NU/6/2/1/6.

Grove Hospital

File labelled 'Fever and Tropical Fevers' containing the following:

  • correspondence between Grove Hospital sister tutor Margaret Thomas and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (enclosing syllabus of lectures), Jun 1957
  • correspondence from the General Nursing Council, 1952-1957
  • transcripts and correspondence from former trainees, 1949-1953
  • receipts for books and stationery, 1940s-1950s
  • envelope labelled 'Fever Papers' containing GNC exam papers for fever nurses, 1955-1959
  • quarterly ward report forms and blank record of training form, 1940-1952
  • test paper from trainee nurse Grace Bradford, c.1940s

Advertising and miscellaneous ephemera

Advertisements and miscellaneous ephemera, including:

  • copies of illustrated listings from J. H. Montague equipment catalogue, nd [originals c. 19th century?]
  • cover for 'Baillière's Medical Transparencies: Sexually Transmitted Diseases' including fold-out 'Legends to Slides', c.1976 [slides themselves are missing]
  • flyer advertising Daniel Neal's shoes, 'approved by the [St George's] hospital authorities' for use by nurses, nd [c.1940s-1950s?]
  • promotional flyer for the 'St John' Tourniquet produced by the St John Ambulance Association, including directions for use, nd [c.1940s-1950s?]
  • 'Queen's Institute of District Nursing: Uniform for Queen's Nurses' – page specifying/illustrating the uniform to be worn, nd [c.1930s-1940s?]
  • blank, folded 'Nurses' Chart' form for logging a student nurse's training, nd [c. 1950s?]
  • copy of the logo for the Queen's Golden Jubilee, annotated on the reverse ('To go with Coronation pictures possibly'), c.2002

Certificates

Training certificates from various hospitals, including:

  • Battersea-Bolingbroke & Putney School of Nursing [blank certificate, 2 copies], nd
  • Joint Scheme of Training for Nurses at the Uxbridge Union Hospital and the Kingston & District Hospital [certificate for nurse Dorothy Beesley], 9 Aug 1927
  • Royal Hospital, Richmond [blank certificate], nd
  • St George's District School of Nursing [blank certificate of pupil nurse training], nd
  • Surbiton Hospital [blank certificate for efficiency in Geriatric, Medical and Surgical Nursing], nd
  • Sutton Hospital Enrolled Nurse Training School [certificate for nurse Pauline Dunec, in presentation wallet], 3 Oct 1973
  • Warlingham Park Hospital School of Nursing [certificate for nurse D. Santchurn, in presentation wallet], 23 Feb 1973

Also includes a hand-lettered heraldic description of the borough arms of Sutton and Cheam, which were incorporated into the training school badge of Sutton Hospital (nd, but c.1934-1965, when the municipal borough of Sutton and Cheam existed).

Information booklets and reports

Information booklets and reports relating to the South London Hospital, including:

  • Annual Report 1942, published 1943
  • The South London Hospital for Women and Children – history booklet 'compiled by a Consultant Surgeon of the Hospital', 1958 [inscribed 'Sister Chadburn']
  • The South London Hospital for Women and Children – expanded version of history booklet, 1966
  • South London Hospital for Women – 70th anniversary booklet, 1982
  • South London Hospital for Women – information leaflet for doctors, Dec 1982

Laws and bye-laws

Includes:

  • Laws and Bye-laws of the South London Hospital for Women, 1923 [two copies, both amended]
  • The South London Hospital Nurses' League: The Constitution and Bye-laws, nd [c.1950s-1960s?]

Pauline Boutle

Photocopies of documents relating to Pauline Boutle, including:

  • correspondence from St George's Hospital, 1961-1962
  • test and exam papers, 1965
  • class photograph and photographs of Boutle and patients in grounds of Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 1962-1964
  • programme for 'Up the Corner', a production by the St George's Hospital Medical School Dramatic Society, 1966
  • signed menu for St George's Hospital Supper Dance, 24 Apr 1967
  • St George's Hospital dietary advice, c.1960s

Cecily Wade

Items donated by Cecily Wade (née Collier), including:

  • nurse's belt signed by her colleagues, c.1950s [with accompanying photocopy of signatures]
  • St George's Hospital School of Nursing certificates of course completion (with honours) and one-year service as staff nurse, 1954-1955
  • programme for St George's School of Nursing presentation of medals and prizes (by the Duchess of Kent), 4 May 1959
  • letter to Wade from Muriel Powell, 2 Sep 1969 [with photocopy]

Betty Samuels

Items relating to Betty Samuels (aka 'Sam'), donated by Mary Lucas, including:

  • cover letter and inventory from Mary Lucas, 14 Nov 2006
  • St George's Hospital 'Rules for the Sisters', 1922 [with additional photocopy]
  • programme for the funeral of Helen Hanks, 1949 [with handwritten note about Hanks from Lucas]
  • leaving card signed by hospital staff, featuring a painting of the hospital with Wellington Arch in the foreground, nd [c.1961?]
  • St George's Hospital coat of arms, printed on aluminium and mounted on card, nd [c. late 20th C.]
  • small photograph of Samuels in sister's uniform, in circular frame, c.1953

Elona Rogers

Scanned copies of documents relating to Elona Rogers (née Edgar), including uniform pass, coronation ticket and duty pass, correspondence (including letters from Muriel Powell), timetable, and exam papers

Press cuttings

Press cuttings of obituary notices (in the Nursing Times, Nursing Standard, and Daily Telegraph), news items about Powell's memorial service and the unveiling of a plaque in her memory, and a column about her dementia ('Victim of ignorance', Guardian, 2000 – cutting donated by Mary Heyes).

Also includes cuttings about a coffee bar opened at a church hall in Cinderford in her parents' memory (c.1969?), the Lanesborough hotel (1992), Florence Nightingale (nd – c.2000?), and an issue of St George's 'InTouch' magazine (Dec 2004) containing an item on the Nurses' League's commemorations of Powell.

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

Book reviews/coverage

Promotional press cuttings and transcribed reviews of Powell's book 'Patients are People' (1975), as well a single press cutting about 'Called to Serve' (1952), the book she co-wrote with Paul Gliddon

Press cuttings about Powell

Press cuttings about or referring to Muriel Powell, including reports on public appearances and pronouncements, honours, etc., some with photographs. The earliest item – 'Two Girl Guides Save Curate' (Daily Mirror, 10 Jul 1933) – refers to a 'Gertrude Powell', but this was apparently Muriel; the other girl guide was Mary Gliddon (see Nurses' Voices interview, NU/7/2/42).

Press cuttings

Press cuttings preserved by Powell, mostly of news items or articles about herself, St George's, or nursing more generally.

(For posthumous press cuttings, see NU/5/40/13/5.)

Reports

Published reports, including:

  • Working Party Report on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses, 1948
  • Study Group on Basic Nursing Curriculum in Europe (World Health Organization), 1955
  • Conference on Post-Basic Nursing Education in Europe (World Health Organization), 1956
  • The Pattern of the In-Patient's Day, 1961 [with Foreword by Powell, who chaired the sub-committee]
  • The State Enrolled Nurse: A report by the Sub-Committee of the Standing Nursing Advisory Committee [which included Powell], 1971
  • Report of the Committee on Nursing, 1972
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