File Nur - Nursing

Papers of St George’s Nurses’ League, including
Administrative papers:

• Fabric St George's nursing badge with correspondence relating to St George’s 250th anniversary celebrations, c.1920s-1983
• Details of entry to St George’s Hospital School of Nursing, 1960
• Meeting minutes, agendas and related correspondence, 1979-1996
• Address at the service of thanksgiving in honour of Dame Muriel Powell, 1979
• Draft constitution and account of St George’s Nurses’ League, 1980-1982
• Information on the School of Nursing, nd (c.1980s)
• Membership list, 1995
• Correspondence to members, 1990s
• Conference programmes, 1996-1999
• ‘St George’s Nurses League oral history project’: Interview schedule, blank copyright agreement, nd (2010-2011)
  Journals, newsletters, photographs:
• Photographs (12 items) of nurses’ Christmas choir and other events and related correspondence, 1955-1956 (some in O/S folder)
• Newsletters (nos 9-12), 1996-1997; 1960
• St George’s Hospital Nurses’ Handbook, 1974
• Article in the Nursing Mirror ‘Around the Corner’ on Sue Benson, nurse at St George’s, 1982
• Nurses’ League Journal, 1983
• Copy of painting by Audrey Hammond, 1993
• Nurses League newsletter, 1999

Nursing regulations:

• General rules for probationers, 1920s
• Duties of the staff nurses, 1960
• ‘Hospital etiquette’ (photocopy, no source), nd (c.1900s)
• Report of the committee of nursing (copy), 1893
• NHS General Dental Services regulations, 1964

Documents relating to former nurses and nursing students:

• Letter to a nurse, 1902, and related[?] correspondence
• Certificate of Olive Matthews, signed by Warrington Haward, William Ewart, Clinton Thomas Dent, Humphrey Davy Rolleston, Francis Jaffrey and Florence Smedley, 1906, and related correspondence
• Exam papers, 1936
• Certificate of Barbara Day, signed by Muriel Powell, Helga Feiling and Lord Ingleby, 1954 and related correspondence
• Photographs of nursing students, a St George’s Hospital badge and related correspondence, 1954
• Copy photographs, exam papers, certificate and correspondence relating to nurse Josephine Ruth Dunstone, 1996
• Enquiries relating to former nurses and nursing students and to donations to the archive, 1963-1997

Florence Nightingale:

• Photograph ‘Florence Nightingale: taken at Claydon House in the early nineties’
• Article on Florence Nightingale, cutting from ‘Nursing Mirror’, 1954
• Postcard depicting the home of Florence Nightingale

Folder 6, ‘S.O.N. details’:

• Notes and correspondence relating to move to Tooting, including lists of furniture and valuations, 1978-1980
• Leaflet on medals and prizes presented by the Duchess of Kent, 1959
• Parliamentary Hansard report regarding nurses’ pay, 1962, 1969
• Salmon report from ‘International Nursing Review’ by Muriel Powell ‘The implementation of a pilot scheme at St George’s Hospital, London, c.1966
• Article from ‘Nursing Times’ by Jillian MacGuire and Ruth Pomeranz, ‘Training for Reality 1-2: The Implications of Demographic Trends for the Training of Nurses’, 1968
• Article from ‘Nursing Mirror’, 1982

• English

Box 6 (WB/5), O/S (P/7)