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Post Mortem Examinations and Case Books

  • 406 PM
  • Collectie
  • 1840-1946

The post mortem records contain manuscript case notes, with medical notes both pre and post mortem. These include details on patients’ admission to the hospital, treatments and medication administered to patients and the medical history of patients; the medical histories were copied into the volumes from hospital registers, which are no longer extant. The post mortem cases include detailed pathological findings made during the detailed examination of the body after death. From the 1880s onwards the case books contain original anatomical drawings and photographs.

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The following information is recorded for each case. The information is transcribed from the case notes and/or the relevant index and, where relevant, additionally standardised using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)

• Name of the patient. If a name is not entered in the volume, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No name stated]’

• Gender of the patient (female / male / unknown)

• Age of the patient. Usually in numbers, following the original, with the following exceptions: 4/12 = 4 months, 4/52 = 4 weeks, 4/365 = 4 days. If no age is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No age stated]’

• Occupation of the patient. Where no occupation is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No occupation stated]’. Children are often designated according to their father’s or mother’s occupation and women by their husband’s occupation (e.g. ‘F / Horsekeeper’, ‘M. Charwoman’, ‘Hd Grocer’); these have been rendered in the catalogue as ‘[Child of] Horsekeeper’, ‘[Wife of] Grocer’

• Date of admission and date of death

• The names of the doctors treating or examining the patient. ‘Admitted under the care of’ denotes the senior doctor in charge of the case (usually entered at the top of the page and in the index); ‘Post mortem performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the post mortem examination (usually signed at the bottom of the page) and ‘Medical examination performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the medical examination prior to death (usually signed at the bottom of the page). The earliest records usually contain only one name, and some of the later ones may contain multiple names in each category. An authority record (name access point) with basic biographical details has been created for each doctor mentioned in the records; these can be used to explore all the cases related to a particular individual

• Disease(s) or cause of death of the patient. Transcribed from the medical case and/or the index and standardised, e.g. ‘Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Fractured base. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (lungs). Fracture (skull)’

• Medical and post mortem notes. Brief summary description or transcription of the case notes relating to previous medical history (not a full transcription of the case notes)

• Note on whether the case includes illustrations or photographs; these can also be browsed via genre access points

• Note on whether the death was caused by trauma, accident or suicide

• Subject access points, using standardised terms from MeSH, with disease type (e.g. respiratory tract diseases, cardiovascular diseases) and anatomy type (e.g. cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system), which can be used for browsing all relevant cases

Note on transcriptions and abbreviations

Names have been silently expanded, e.g. Jas = James, Wm = William

Some common abbreviations and acronyms

AMCH = Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital, Wimbledon
BID = Brought in dead
COA = Condition on admission
F = Father
H or Hd = Husband
HP = House physician
HS = House surgeon
IP = In-patient
L = Left
M = Mother
MR or Med reg or Med r = Medical register or Medical registrar
MS = Museum specimen
OP = Out-patient
OPD = Out-patient department
OR = Obstetric register
PMH = Previous medical history
PH = Previous history
Pt or Pat = Patient
PM = Post mortem
R = Right
RF = Rheumatic fever
Ry = Railway
SR or Surg reg = Surgical register or Surgical registrar
TB = Tuberculosis
VD = Venereal disease

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St George's Nursing Collection

  • 406 NU
  • Collectie
  • c.1830-2015

Collection charting the development of nursing education at St George's and related institutions from the 19th century to the present day.

The collection includes:

  • Student registers, training and examination records, prospectuses and syllabuses
  • Administrative records, including committee minutes, reports, rules and regulations
  • Publications and printed material including books, newsletters and journals
  • Papers, photographs and artefacts from St George’s Nurses’ League
  • Personal papers, memoirs and memorabilia from individual nurses, including papers of matron Dame Muriel Powell (c.1910s-­1970s)
  • Photographs, including student photographs, group photographs and personal photo albums
  • Artefacts and objects, including items of nurses' uniform, badges, medals, and medical instruments
  • ‘Nurses’ Voices’ oral history project: interviews with over 100 former St George’s nurses and midwives (and related documentation), recorded 2003-2008

From in-­job training at the hospital, nursing education was gradually formalised during the latter half of the 19th century. From 1882 onwards, probationer nurses were offered lectures by the medical school and hospital staff; these lectures developed into a more formal syllabus, becoming compulsory for probationers in the 1890s, and the first formal examinations were introduced in 1894. The archive charts the development of nursing education from the late 19th century to the 21st century, including important changes in the demographics of the nursing staff, such as the arrival of the Windrush generation.

The collection encompasses training of nurses at St George’s and related institutions: for instance, nursing training at Victoria Hospital for Children and Grove Hospital were merged with St George’s School of Nursing in the 1950s, leading to the establishment of a branch of the School of Nursing at Tooting, where St George’s Hospital and Medical School (later university) moved in the 1970s from Hyde Park Corner, central London.

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NV112 – Susan Royston

Ref no: NV112
Name: Susan Royston (née Bennett)
Dates at St George's: 1970-1973

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Ann Salmon.

Image description:
PH747 – Susan Royston: Susan Royston in uniform at St George's Hospital, Oct 1970

NV111 – Elona Rogers

Folder containing interview summary sheet, two copyright agreements, two MiniDiscs of interview recordings (22 Sep 2005 – original and transcriber's copy), four sets of audio CD copies (two discs each), an additional audio CD labelled 'Supplementary recording of Elona Rogers' memories (25/9/2005)', and three pages of annotated printouts of scanned photographs

NV111 – Elona Rogers

Ref no: NV111
Name: Elona Rogers (née Edgar)
Dates at St George's: 1952-1955

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Didge Brookings.

Image description:
PH140 – Elona Rogers 1953 & 1955: Elona Rogers on roof of St George's, 1953 and in uniform, 1955

NV107 – Gillian Perry

Ref no: NV107
Name: Gillian Perry (née Lloyd)
Dates at St George's: 1969-1978

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Shirley Orbell.

Image description:
PH726 – Gillian Perry nee Lloyd: Gillian Perry (née Lloyd), May 1969 Set, receiving Honours Certificate in Hospital Finals Exam 1972 from Dame Muriel Powell in the Boardroom at St George's, Hyde Park Corner

NV106 – Janet Moriarty

Ref no: NV106
Name: Janet Moriarty (née Smith)
Dates at St George's: 1958-1961

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Stephanie Kirby.

Image descriptions:
PH092 – Set B 1958: Janet Moriarty's set of trainee nurses, 1958
PH093 – Janet Moriarty in student uniform, 1958

NV104 – Maria Lorentzon

Ref no: NV104
Name: Dr Maria Lorentzon
Dates at St George's: 1963-1967, 1973-1975

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Jenny Beckingsale.

Image descriptions:
PH106 – Maria Lorentzon 1966: Maria Lorentzon as newly qualified nurse, 1966;
PH107 – Maria Lorentzon on McCalmont ward 1974: Maria Lorentzon (sister, left hand corner) and team on McCalmont Ward, 1974. Staff Nurse standing next to Maria, Enrolled Nurse (in mauve dress) seated in centre of picture. 3 students in grey and white striped uniforms. Ward Orderly in blue overall.
PH108 – Maria Lorentzon with patient on McCalmont ward, 1974. New style uniform.

NV103 – Margaret Lloyd

Ref no: NV103
Name: Margaret Lloyd (née Reed)
Dates at St George's: 1957-1961

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Jenny Beckingsale.

Image descriptions:
PH058 – Nurse qualifying 60: Margaret Lloyd (née Reed) on qualifying in 1960;
PH059 – Sep57 PTS: Margaret Reed back row, 5th from L. Includes new radiography students (3 in white, right end of middle rows) and 3 Tite Street Nurses at end of 2nd row from front.(Radiography and Tite St shared PTS with St George's nurses.)
PH060 – Sep 57 set qualify: Staff nurses qualifying from the Sept 1957 set. Margaret Reed (Lloyd) 5th from left, 3rd row from front.

NV102 – Jenny Leeves

Ref no: NV102
Name: Jenny Leeves (née Hopkinson)
Dates at St George's: 1957-1961, 1972-1980

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Elaine Frew.

Image descriptions:
PH073 – Jan57 Set: Jenny Leeves' set of 1957
PH073a –Signatures: Student signatures on the reverse of photo above
PH074 – Jan57 Set: Jenny Leeves' set of 1957
PH127 – Jenny Leeves at Grosvenor House Ball 1960

Jean Meadows photo album

Album labelled 'Career' containing photographs featuring or relating to St George's nurse Jean Meadows (née Veronica Jean Cruise), including scenes of nurses, wards, Christmas festivities, royal visits, etc. Also includes press cuttings about visits by two different Duchesses of Kent (Princess Marina and Katharine) and an inserted certificate of completion of the St George's tuberculosis nursing course (1957).

Student nurse record binder: Not completed, A-F

Metal-backed binder containing records of student nurses who entered St James' Hospital in the 1950s-1960s but did not complete their training, arranged alphabetically by surname (A-F). Each individual record includes the following information: name, address, non-resident address, next of kin, age, date of birth, religion, country of origin (for records from 1960s onwards), marital status/maiden name, education, previous occupation, dates of training and leaving, number of lectures attended, study days, examinations, health record, sickness and special leave/holidays, and 'particulars of training' (dates and types of ward experience, with brief reports).

The records generally have a passport-style photograph affixed to the top right-hand corner.

NV010 – Ruth Cecil

Ref no: NV010
Name: Ruth Cecil (née Sachs)
Dates at St George's: 1962-1965

Digital image, copyright form and transcript of audio recording with Sue Hawkins as interviewer. No digitised audio recording present.

Image description:
PH139 – Ruth Cecil, taken at May 2006 exhibition

Pupil nurse course registers

Registers relating to pupil nurse training from the 1970s onwards, including a mixture of hardback attendance/ward experience registers and card files; the latter also contain various additional documents, including class photographs, timetables, test papers, and correspondence.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Hardback registers (Box 3):
Oct 1971 – Mar 1985
Jun 1972 – Oct 1982
Apr 1987 – Dec 1990

File registers (Box N18):
May 1976 – Feb 1978
Oct 1976 – Jul 1978
Nov 1976 – Jul 1978
May 1977 – Jan 1979
Nov 1977 – Jun 1979
Feb 1978 – Jun 1979
May 1978 – Feb 1980
Oct 1978 – Sep 1980 [includes photograph]
Mar-Apr 1979
Nov 1979 – Jul 1981
Feb 1980 – Jul 1981 [includes copies of patient notes]
Oct 1980 – Mar 1982 ['Oct 1980 Pupils: General File'; includes photographs]
Oct 1980 – Jan 1982 ['Oct 1980 Record of Study Blocks']
Oct-Nov 1981 ['Part-time Pupils']

Tennis/swimming photographs

Black and white photographs (with press copyright stamps on the reverse) of nurses playing tennis or holding tennis trophies (including one shot featuring matron Muriel Powell). Also includes one photograph of a nurses' swimming team in a pool.

NV100 – Anne Hendy

Ref no: NV100
Name: Anne Hendy (née Coulson)
Dates at St George's: 1952-1956, 1958-1959

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Patricia Gillie.

Image descriptions:
PH014 – Staff Nurse Coulson 1955: Staff Nurse Coulson and two student nurses 'report giving' 1955-1956, on either Williams or William King Ward at Hyde Park Corner;
PH015 – Ward round 1955: Ward round on either Williams or William King Ward 1955-56;
PH016 – Ward work 1955: Ward work, nurse wearing a mask, possibly preparing an injection at Sister's Desk, on either Williams or William King ward;
PH719 – Anne Hendy: Anne Hendy in uniform on Bence Jones in 1958

NV099 – Diana Hampton

Ref no: NV099
Name: Diana Hampton (née Dallas)
Dates at St George's: 1961-1965, 1973-1979

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Janet Bocking.

Image description:
PH720 – Diana Hampton: Diana Hampton in uniform, aged 21

NV097 – Nicky Gilmour

Ref no: NV097
Name: Nicky Gilmour
Dates at St George's: 1972-1975

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Shirley Orbell.

Image descriptions:
PH714 – Nicky Gilmour: Nicky Gilmour in PTS [Preliminary Training School] uniform [cropped from image below];
PH715 – Nicky Gilmour on right: Gilmour (right) with her student colleagues, c.1970s

NV097 – Nicky Gilmour

Folder containing interview summary sheet, two copyright agreements, two MiniDiscs of interview recordings (20 Sep 2006), five sets of audio CD copies (two discs each), and a photocopy of two photographs

NV095 – Elaine Frew

Ref no: NV095
Name: Elaine Frew (née Bursnell)
Dates at St George's: 1961-1965, 1968-1969

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Diana Hampton.

Image description:
PH136 – Elaine Frew 1964: Elaine Frew in uniform, June 1964

NV094 – Rosemary Freestone

Ref no: NV094
Name: Rosemary Freestone (née Terry)
Dates at St George's: 1952-1957

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Margaret Lloyd.

Image description:
PH751 – Rosemary Freestone: Rosemary Freestone in Staff Nurse Uniform, 1956/1957. Taken by John Finlay Lewis, who had his studio near the bus stop in Earls Court Road.

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