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Occupation or role: Bus conductor
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Dec 1920
Date of death: 13 Jan 1921
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma pylorus, complete stenosis and starvation
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Stomach); Starvation (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Collier, James Stansfield
Medical examination performed by: Gainsborough, Hugh
Post mortem examination performed by: Donaldson, Robert
Medical notes: The woman had abdominal pain and vomiting after food for six months. Her condition had been getting much worse recently, and there had been considerable loss of weight.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx and trachea, thyroid, pleurae, lungs, pulmonary vessels, bronchial glands, pericardium, heart, coronary vessels, aorta, peritoneum, liver, gall bladder, ducts, pancreas, spleen, suprarenals, kidneys, ureters, bladder, uterus and appendages, stomach, appendix and lumbar glands
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Schoolmaster
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Dec 1921
Date of death: 8 Jan 1922
Disease (transcribed): No autopsy. Mitral disease. Auricular fibrillation
Disease (standardised): Heart valve diseases (Heart); Atrial fibrillation (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Golla, Frederick Lucien
Medical examination performed by: Gainsborough, Hugh
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'History: The present illness started 6 weeks ago with fits of suffocation and pains over the heart. The symptoms have been gradually getting worse. P.M.H. [Previous medical history] Rheumatic fever 20 years ago followed by heart trouble. On admission: 7/12/21. Somewhat cyanosed. Heart. AB. 4 ½ [inch] from midline in 6th space. No apparent enlargement to the rt. [right] Apical systolic murmur. Action very irregular. Lungs. No dulness. Moist rales all over. Abdomen. Liver not enlarged. Feet oedematous. Urine contains albumen'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'No autopsy'
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Jan 1924
Date of death: 9 Jan 1924
Disease (transcribed): Perforated duodenal ulcer. General peritonitis. Oedema
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Duodenum); Perforation (Duodenum); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Oedema (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Torrens, James Aubrey
Medical examination performed by: T.L.[?]
Post mortem examination performed by: Schuster, Norah Henriette
Medical notes: The patient was too ill to give any definite history, but appeared to have suffered with cough and dyspnoea for some time.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, stomach, duodenum, intestines, caecum, liver and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Storeman
Age: 1 day
Gender: [No gender stated]
Date of admission: 5 Jan 1928
Date of death: 7 Jan 1928
Disease (transcribed): ? Tearing of tentorium. Haemorrhage around chord
Disease (standardised): Tearing (Brain); Haemorrhage (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Kirwan-Taylor, Harold George
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Kirwan-Taylor, Harold George
Medical notes: The baby died on the second day after delivery. It was a spontaneous delivery with a long second stage. The mother elderly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, trachea, thyroid, oesophagus, thymus, heart, pericardium, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, suprarenals, urinary tract, alimentary canal, brain and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Handyman
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Dec 1929
Date of death: 11 Jan 1930
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised): n/a
Admitted under the care of: Frankau, Claude Howard Stanley
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: No autopsy
Body parts examined in the post mortem: No autopsy
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Clerk
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Jan 1931
Date of death: 11 Jan 1931
Disease (transcribed): Glioma cerebri
Disease (standardised): Glioma (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Gainsborough, Hugh
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Holdsworth, Frank Wild
Medical notes: He was admitted with a cerebral tumour. He was an Inpatient here in February 1928. Decompression by Mr. Frankau with relief of symptoms. He had severe headache for fourteen days with loss of use of the right arm and leg. The patient died on the day after admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, thymus, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Valet
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Jan 1932
Date of death: 12 Jan 1932
Disease (transcribed): Lobar pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Levick, Claude Blaxland
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: McKissock, Wylie
Medical notes: He collapsed six days ago, and was told by his doctor that he had pneumonia.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, thyroid, pericardium, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Jan 1937
Date of death: 13 Jan 1937
Disease (transcribed): Multiple injuries. Left hydronephrosis and ureteric calculus
Disease (standardised): Injury (Systemic); Hydronephrosis (Kidney); Calculi (Ureter)
Admitted under the care of: n/a
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Bull, James William Douglas
Medical notes: He fell from a train and was picked up unconscious.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneal cavity, liver, spleen, kidneys, brain and skull, prostate and bladder
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Course attendance register for obstetric nurses, including test marks, details of lecture and tutorial subjects, and taped-in rotas

Programmes for events attended by Powell, mostly speech and prize days at various girls' schools, but also including a conference (on 'The Pattern of the In-Patient's Day'), an unveiling of a war memorial, and two dinner menus

Miscellaneous personal/portrait photographs of people connected to St George's, including Sister Chapman, Sister Bryant ('looking at Coronation Procession from Drummond Ward'), and Dame Helen Cargill, as well as personal photographs of a 1953 rugby tour (presumably the St George's team?) and a visit of St George's students to Battersea Park Fun Fair.

Printed copy of the article 'Leadership and innovation in nursing seen through a historical lens' by Ruth Harris, Janette Bennett and Fiona Ross, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing (2013). The article makes use of the Nurses' Voices interviews 'to explore nurses' archived accounts of Matron Muriel Powell's management and leadership style and the impact of this on the implementation and stability of innovation in the workplace'.

Occupation or role: No occupation
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Nov 1938
Date of death: 14 Jan 1939
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised): n/a
Admitted under the care of: Frankau, Claude Howard Stanley
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: She had been an Inpatient at times since 1936 for lumps in the breast and a fracture of the right humerus. An x-ray in 1938 showed secondary deposits in the upper third of the left humerus. She now had headaches, mainly in the occipital region for the last four months. She had noticed a lump in this region for the last three months which was tender.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Breast, pleural cavities, pleurae, lungs, thyroid, mediastinal glands, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, suprarenals, bladder, brain, skull and miscelleanous
Type of incident: n/a

Metal face mask (of the type designed by German physician Curt Schimmelbusch, c.1890) for open chloroform anaesthesia

Papers relating to academic visit to Iran in 2008 by the International Council on Drugs Policy (ICDP). Visit regarding two UK government funded addiction training programmes at two Iranian universities in Yazd and Semnan; also includes papers relating to methadone treatment workshop in UK in collaboration with Tehran University

Minutes of the St George's Hospital Medical School Audit Committee meeting held November 2001.