Registers relating to pupil midwives at Kingston Hospital. The registers take various formats: some record lecture attendance and topics studied; some record details of clinic experience and lists of births at which the pupils assisted; and the remainder (the registers with marbled covers and alphabetical indexes at the front) record personal details of individual pupils, including name, rank, home address, date of birth, date of entry/leaving, religion, training schools and certificates, experience since training, and remarks.
The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:
May 1941 – Oct 1952 ['Doctors' Lectures to Pupil Midwives']
Jul 1950 – Oct 1953
Oct 1953 – Oct 1959 [continuation of previous register]
Jul 1953 – Jan 1957 [a loose page from a different lecture register dating from 1952 has been inserted at the front]
Jan 1957 – Apr 1960
Jan 1960 – May 1965
Apr 1960 – Apr 1963
Jan 1961 – Oct 1968
Jan 1966 – Oct 1968
Jul 1968 – Jan 1974
Oct 1968 – Mar 1971
Oct 1973 – Mar 1977
Aug 1976 – Dec 1978 [cover has become slightly sticky]
Nov 1981 – Oct 1984 ['Kingston Hospital Midwifery School 18-Month Training, Nov 1981 Set']
Nov 1983 – Sep 1986 [note that by this time the title 'pupil midwife' had been replaced with 'student midwife']