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Neville Foulsham, 19, [Child of] Porter

Occupation or role: [Child of] Porter
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Feb 1922
Date of death: 17 Mar 1922
Disease (transcribed): Precocious adiposity. ? Hypernephroma
Disease (standardised): Adiposity (Systemic); Carcinoma, renal cell (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bellingham-Smith, Eric
Medical examination performed by: Gainsborough, Hugh
Post mortem examination performed by: Donaldson, Robert
Medical notes: 'History: The pt. [patient] attended the O.P.D. [Out-patient department] for pain in the sides, back and hips. His throat had been sore for 2 weeks. He said he had 'influenza' 2 months ago. He had been fat as long as he could remember. He reached the 6th standard at school and worked in a munition factory during the war but since then had no regular emplyment. An X Ray of the skull had shewed no change in the sella turcica. On admission: 23/2/'22 There was extraordinary and universal obesity, florid complexion, pedulous [sic] cheeks, female type breasts and pendulous abdomen with well marked '[?]'. He had a high pitched voice and his mentality was child like. Heart and lungs. N.A.D. [Nothing abnormal discovered]. B.P. systolic 218 mm. Abdomen. Nothing abnormal palpable. Lt [Left] testicle small and rt. [right] undescended. Urine contained 4% albumen. No gross change in fields of vision'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Hair, skin, pupils, skull, brain, membranes, tongue, thymus, thyroid, larynx, trachea, pleurae, lungs, bronchi, bronchial glands, pericardium, heart
Type of incident: n/a

Year Books

Collection of year books. The volumes feature profiles, individual and group photos, cartoons, messages from the Principal and Dean, messages from other staff members, and contact details so the students can keep in touch.

St George's Nursing Collection

  • 406 NU
  • Collection
  • 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.

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

Photographs

Photographs collected by or donated to the Nurses' League, including:

  • 2 albums of black and white group photographs of trainee nurse cohorts, annotated with surnames, 1952-1977
  • envelope of colour photographs 'taken during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new [Tooting] hospital', with names written on the reverse, c.1963-1964
  • colour photographs of a Nurses' League reunion party, Nov 1987
  • album of colour photographs of meetings of the re-established Nurses' League, annotated with names, 1989-1992 [oversize]
  • two black and white photographs of staff nurse Gaynor Arney and senior outpatients nurse Wendy Miller lighting a candle to mark the relaunch of the Nurses' League, c.1989
  • glassine bag labelled 'From Sue Hawkins 17.2.04' containing colour photographs of an event to commemorate Atkinson Morley Hospital, c.2003
  • Kodak wallet of colour photographs (with Picture CD) of an event to commemorate Muriel Powell held in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, 2004
  • 2 yellow slide boxes containing colour slides of Atkinson Morley Hospital buildings, wards and grounds, 1974
  • blue slide box containing black and white and colour slides of nurses, hospital wards [at Atkinson Morley?], vehicles, buildings, maps, etc., c.1970s-1980s [but including reproductions of images c.1940s]
  • set of negatives labelled 'Nurses' League Meeting, Autumn 1990'
  • miscellaneous personal photographs of Sheilagh Hall, Lulu Cassells and Grace Brooks (née Brinsley), and a Nursing Times photograph of nurses with tennis rackets, c.1950s-2013

Reginald Stepney, 5, [Child of] Railway guard

Occupation or role: [Child of] Railway guard
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Aug 1913
Date of death: 31 Oct 1913
Disease (transcribed): Anaemia ? (aplastic clinically). Acute leukaemia
Disease (standardised): Anaemia (Systemic); Leukaemia (Bone marrow, Blood)
Admitted under the care of: Frankau, Claude Howard Stanley
Medical examination performed by: Oram, Evelyn Henry Bardens
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: He had pain in the back for a month. He fell out of a cart some months ago.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, thymus, thyroid, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, alimentary canal, skull, eyes, bones and marrow
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

St George's Hospital

Photographs apparently taken at St George's Hospital/School of Nursing or other sites relating to it.

Many of the images have been assigned 'PH' reference numbers, which relate to an older catalogue listing; some also have labels stating 'Chapter' and 'Fig.' numbers, indicating that they were to be used in some written work [not identified – possibly never completed?] about the history of nursing at St George's.

Miscellaneous/unidentified

Miscellaneous photographs without labels explicitly connecting them to particular hospitals.

Note, however, that many of these images presumably relate to St George's or other hospitals absorbed into it.

Photographs

Copies of photographs not relating to particular Nurses' Voices interviews (or from donors who were not interviewed), including:

  • two black and white printouts of scanned photographs from Didge Brookings (with cover letter)
  • three pages of black and white and colour printouts of scanned photographs (with written descriptions) in folder labelled 'Australia NV samples'
  • copy of photograph of a man dressed as Father Christmas delivering presents on a children's ward, labelled 'GOSH [Great Ormond Street Hospital] c1900s' on the reverse

Early nursing photographs

Early black and white photographs (i.e. 19th-early 20th century – mostly reproductions) of groups of nurses and hospital wards, including four images mounted on board and an oversize poster reproducing a series of photographs taken in America entitled 'What It Means to Be a Trained Nurse' (originally published in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1898 – also includes second sheet with accompanying article text).

Daphne Chynoweth

Items (mostly photocopies) donated by/relating to Daphne Chynoweth (née Kinch), including:

  • typed recollections headed 'Priliminary [sic] Training School' and 'Atkinson Morley Hospital'
  • report on 'October 1951 Set Reunion: Tenterden, Kent'
  • annotated printouts of scanned photographs taken in 1950s
  • photocopied correspondence (with St George's Hospital, General Nursing Council, Royal College of Nursing, etc. – originals 1950s)
  • copy of 'Oxford Ward Junior Plan' (instructions for night duty on ward)
  • copy of St George's School of Nursing certificate (original 1954)
  • photocopy of signed nurse's belt with transcribed list of names
  • photocopied/transcribed poems, 1950s

NVA166 – Pam Altmann

Folder containing interview summary sheet, copyright agreement, copyright caveat form, MiniDisc recording of interview (21 Apr 2008), audio CD copy, and folder of correspondence and photocopied documents/photographs

NVA168 – Joan Peake

Folder containing copyright agreement, copyright caveat form, MiniDisc recording of interview (21 Apr 2008), audio CD copy, printouts of scanned photographs, and photocopies of certificates and test papers

NV022 – Rachel McHugh

Folder containing interview summary sheet, copyright agreement, two MiniDiscs of interview recordings (26 Mar 2004 – original and transcriber's copy), two audio CD copies, and additional correspondence enclosing copies of scanned photographs

NVA163 – Marie Parry

Folder containing interview summary sheet, copyright agreement, MiniDisc recording of interview (22 Apr 2008), audio CD copy, and a printed email from Parry enclosing scans of a letter from the General Nursing Council and five photographs

NVA169 – Barbara King

Folder containing interview summary sheet, copyright agreement, copyright caveat form, MiniDisc recording of interview (22 Apr 2008), audio CD copy, a letter enclosing a photograph of 'Atkinson Morley's Neurosurgical Theatre', additional typed reminiscences, and printouts of scanned photographs and documents (including several relating to Atkinson Morley's Hospital and Wylie McKissock)

Isolation Unit photographs

Set of black and white press photographs of the new isolation unit at St George's Hospital (c.1962), stamped 'Nursing Mirror' on the reverse and stored in a Nursing Mirror folder. They are accompanied by correspondence between assistant editor of the Nursing Times (and former St George's nurse) Cecily Collier and matron Muriel Powell, and a typescript and later photocopy (c.2000s?) of a Nursing Times article about the unit. Since the photos in the published article do not match the ones in this folder, it seems probable that the Nursing Mirror and Nursing Times sent separate photographers, and that the Mirror images and Times correspondence got conflated in this folder.

NV033 – Pamela Aisbitt

Folder containing interview summary sheet, two copyright agreements, two MiniDiscs of interview recordings (27 May 2004 – original and transcriber's copy), two sets of audio CD copies (two discs each), and a photocopy of a letter with an attached envelope enclosing black and white photos (of nurses at Atkinson Morley's Hospital), negatives, and a press cutting about Averil Wingent

Thomas Parsons, 47, Clerk

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Dec 1906
Date of death: 27 Jan 1907
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of liver (sarcoma)
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, Cyril
Medical examination performed by: Golla, Frederick Lucien
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: The patient was admitted complaining of enlargement of the abdomen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, adrenals, bladder, vesiculae seminales, prostate, testes, epididymus, brain, thyroid and skin
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

NV152 – Gail Greenfield

Ref no: NV152
Name: Gail Greenfield
Dates at St George's: ?

Digital images and copyright form. No digitised audio recording or transcript present.

Image descriptions:
DOC076 – Westminster Abbey 250th St George's 1: Front page of Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey for 250th Anniversary of the founding of St George's Hospital;
DOC077 – Westminster Abbey 250th St George's 2: Invite to Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey for 250th Anniversary of the founding of St George's Hospital;
DOC078 – St George's Supper Dance 1967: St George's Hospital April 1967 Supper Dance Menu for Grosvenor House Park Lane with signatures;
PH121 – Christmas & Night duty-2 photos e-mailed in Adobi [sic]: Gail Greenfield with colleagues at Christmas and resting on night duty;
PH722 – Gail Greenfield: From L to R: Sue Gilmour, Gail Greenfield and Jennifer Wilson-Barnet on Edward Wilson ward at Tooting on night duty;
PH723 – Gail Greenfield 1: From L to R: Jennifer Wilson-Barnet, Gail Greenfield and Sue Gilmour on Edward Wilson ward at Tooting on night duty;
PH724 – Gail Greenfield 2: Gail Greenfield holding the ladder for Grace Parsons on Bence Jones ward when preparing for Christmas and putting up decorations.

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
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