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This section contains papers relating to nursing and public health courses offered at Bedford College. The papers concern the administration of the courses including correspondence and minutes of committee meetings as well as a number of press clippings, pamphlets related to the course and sample certificates.

Central Midwives Board register of cases kept by N E Hains, 1935-1941, in Gloucester (Feb-Aug 1935), Hereford (Jan-Mar 1936), Farnham Common (Apr 1936-Mar 1938) and Horsham (May 1938-Oct 1941). The register is a standard pre-printed volume produced by the Central Midwives Board showing patients' names and addresses, date of expected confinement, numbers of previous labours and miscarriages, date and hour of birth, and details of doctor assisting, patients' conditions, drugs or other aid given. Under 'date and time of midwives arrival', the information for cases 1-45 is of admittal or transfer to labour ward, but thereafter times and dates are given alone, which may imply that these were home confinements.

Works by Florence Nightingale, and works by various authors, the property of, or containing contributions by Florence Nightingale, on subjects including nursing, public health, hospital administration, and military hospitals.

Papers of Florence Nightingale, 1876-1956, comprising notes on sick nursing addressed to the editors of Every Girl's Magazine, 19 Nov 1881; photographs of autograph labels for Nightingale's collection of shells. Including a letter from G Ellis Flack from Nottingham University, where the shell collection is now housed, 1951; autograph in pencil; correspondence with Dr John Shaw Billings, 23 Oct 1876-4 Dec 1876, requesting advice from Nightingale on the building of a hospital in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins Trust; and 2 letters relating to the efforts to locate the correspondence, Apr-May 1956.

The collection chiefly comprises correspondence by Florence Nightingale, either in original or in copy form. The date-span covers the whole of her life and the subjects range from her attempts to become a nurse, service in the Crimea and subsequent work reforming the training and practice of nursing, through her other concerns such as Indian sanitation, cottage hospitals and the use of medical statistics, to personal and family matters. Well-represented correspondents include her family (particularly her sister Parthenope and brother-in-law Sir Harry Verney), Sir William Aitken (1825-1892), Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School; George Hanby De'ath (c.1862-1901), Medical Officer of Health for Buckingham; William Farr (1807-1883), statistician; Miss Louisa Gordon, Matron at St Thomas' Hospital; Miss Amy Hughes, Superintendent of the Nurses' Co-operation; Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890); Charles C. Plowden of the Sanitary Department of the India Office; and Mary Clarke Mohl (1793-1883). In addition, there is twentieth century material relating to Nightingale's legacy such as photographs of her grave (at MS.9101) and administrative papers relating to the compilation of A calendar of the letters of Florence Nightingale (Oxford, 1977) by Sue Goldie (MSS.9106-9109).

Dorothy Newhall papers: Diaries and photograph album of service as a nurse in the Serbian Army and Sanitary Inspector with the Serbian Relief Fund, World War One.

New Cross Hospital pupil nurse register, 1954-1965, containing personal details, details or training and examination results.

Papers of Isabella Jeanette (Jean) Murray, including letter enclosing gift, 21 Dec 1922; enrolment card as member of King's College Hospital Nurses League, 14 Jan 1925; receipt for life membership subscription of the League, 18 Apr 1927;
bundle of small black and white photographs including images of nurses Iris Angwen, Jean Murray, Dilnot, Emma, Wallis and Littlejohn, Nichol, Lloyd, Shaw, Ross, Bush, c 1924; photograph of Dr and Mrs Firth, and Raymond Firth, 1932; photograph of Lonsdale Ward, King's College Hospital (undated);
volume of manuscript notes on bandaging, operating theatre procedures and surgical equipment; cuttings of various remedies; the Hospital Chorus; trolley preparation for various procedures; and descriptions of treatments and patient preparation;
examination question paper for King's College Hospital Junior Probationer Examination [c.1921];
bundle of photocopies including an invitation to the Nurses Christmas Ball, King's College Hospital, Jan 1959; notes on Kitchen Duties;
letters to Murray, from T R Sanderson, Assistant County Secretary, British Red Cross Society Kent, confirming her appointment as an approved Lecturer in Home Nursing, 20 Mar 1940; from G G Hall British Red Cross Society, 2 May 1940, relating to Miss Murray's class undertaking the Home Nursing examination; from E [Guy] principal, Ashford Technical Institute and Evening Classes, relating to salary claim form for lectures given in Home Nursing, 7 Apr 1941.
Murray's books including: Text-book for nurses, anatomy physiology, surgery and medicine, E W Hey Groves, and J M Fortescue-Brickdale, 2nd edition, The Joint Committee of Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1919 (inscribed J I Murray, 1920); A handbook for nurses with examination questions based on the contents of the chapters, J K Watson, 5th edition, The Scientific Press, London.[undated] (inscribed J Murray 1919); A complete system of nursing, A Millicent Ashdown, J M Dent & Sons, London and Toronto, 1919 (inscribed I J Murray , and containing letters to Miss J J Murray 1940-1941)); Aids to anatomy and physiology for nurses, Katherine F Armstrong, Balliere, Tindall and Cole, London, 1939 (inscribed I J Murray).

Records of London County Council midwife Agnes Morris. These registers, printed by the London County Council Public Health Department, include the name, address and age of the mother, the date and hour of the child's birth, its sex and whether it was a live or dead birth, with other information about the attendances of the midwife and other doctors or nurses and remarks of a medical nature of the birth. With few exceptions the mothers concerned lived in Peckham until 1952. From 1953 to 1956 the cases were in Balham and Tooting and from 1956 to 1957 in Woolwich.

The volumes are closed under the Data Protection Act. Volume 1 will be open from 2015; volume 2 from 2018 and volume 3 from 2023. Please ask a member of staff for more information.

Papers of Philip Henry Mitchiner comprising notebooks [1904-1910], notebook on fevers (undated); notebook on practical chemistry and physics and nervous diseases, 1904; on anatomy and diseases, with sketches, (2 vols) [1907]; notebook recording instruments for operations, preparations of ligatures, 1910; notebook on district (maternity) cases and pregnancy, [1908];
notebooks containing lecture notes on surgical pathology, 1909; surgery, 1909; diseases of stomach and intestines, 1909; medicine, lung and liver, 1910]; practical surgery and diseases of the breast, 1910;
collection of typescript papers and articles by Mitchener on subjects including the problem of the acute abdomen, gas, swellings in the groin, organisation of surgery under war conditions, injuries of blood vessel, wounds of joints, diseases of the veins, techniques of intravenous transfusion and infusion, comparison of the results of conservative and radical surgical treatment in carcinoma of the breast, 1924-1933 (co-authored), etc; also contains a list of Mitchiner's published articles, 1915-1939; and printed photograph and obituary.

Administrative records, Chaplain's records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and miscellaneous records.

Administrative records, patient registers, nursing records and photographs.

Midwifery certificates donated to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, comprising certificate of competence in midwifery presented to John Harvey, signed by William Smellie M D obstetrician, on 1 Dec 1757 (S52/1); certificate in midwifery awarded to Esther Lavinia Potter by the Obstetrical Society of London on 24 Oct 1888 (S52/2); certificate in midwifery awarded to Isabella Board by the Obstetrical Society of London in 1892 (S52/3).

Midwifery casebook, Aug 1781-Mar 1786, of 'cases extraord[inar]y' in the Lying in Hospital, Dublin and in private practice domiciliary visits 'chiefly among the poor', May 1782-October 1785. Indexed by symptoms.

Comprises: Administrative records; Estate and property records; Nursing records; Medical records; Pathology records; Radiography records; Nurses League records; Staff records; Operating theatre records.

Records of the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, formerly the Metropolitan Nursing Association for Providing Nurses for the Sick Poor. The records comprise: minutes and annual reports, 1873-1974 (Ms 14618-24); correspondence and reports, 1876-1974 (Ms 14625-7); agreements 1917-38 (Ms 14628-31, 14811-12); financial records, 1924-74 (Ms 14632-6, 14891-3); and staff records, 1875-1974 (Ms 14637-51). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1973-4. The whereabouts of any further records is unknown.

Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

Letters received by Dr Anne Summers (formerly of Wellcome Unit Oxford) in 1987, in response to a broadcast on Woman's Hour (BBC Radio), and an article published in Nursing Times; material in connection with the conference 'Memories of Health and Caring', Morley College, London, April 1987.

The letters contain accounts of individuals' experiences of health care they and their families received prior to the inception of the National Health Service (and some accounts by health care professionals), ranging from brief anecdotes to several pages of reminiscences.

The conference papers include list of attendees, financial arrangements, copies of newspaper articles and correspondence.

Correspondence of the RCOG sub-committee relating to the medical curriculum, 1954.

Minutes, committee minutes, agenda books, rules and regulations, files and miscellaneous.

Unpublished typescript memoir of nurse training at King's College Hospital, 1940-1945, written by Katherine McIlroy. Some names and places have been changed to protect identities.

Papers of Sister Elsie Mason comprising photograph album containing small black and white photographs depicting, nurses, wards, patients, students at King's College Hospital etc, 1917-1919. Most images are labelled and dated.

Certificate, souvenir programme and menu card from a reception held by Queen Alexandra for nurses from the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses at Marlborough House.

Manuscript notes by an unknown pupil taken from lectures on midwifery delivered by Colin Mackenzie, 1774, and letter from Miles Philips relating to the notes, enclosing a list of references on Colin Mackenzie, 1954.

Manuscript notes taken from a course of lectures on midwifery by Dr Lowther, Nov-Dec 1773 entitled 'Heads of a course of lectures on midwifery delivered at Dr Orm's Theatre by (the now) Doctor Lowther, in the months of Nov and Dec 1773 taken down in common running hand by his pupil, I Knolton'.

Manuscript notes taken by an unknown student from lectures on midwifery delivered by William Lowder, 1782. Includes table of contents.

Lectures in Midwifery by William Lowder, 1780-1805, in some cases collaborating with John Haighton.

London County Council register of tramway track lengths, recording description and lengths of route, street length, track length and remarks, such as "conversion to trolleybus", "abandoned" and so on, [1912-1952], with enclosures: photocopy of map of tramways in the London County Council area, revised to 1931; and diagrams of track lengths in Leyton and Hammersmith.

Administrative records, deeds, financial records, patient records, nursing records, photographs, pharmacy records, surveyor's records and papers, photographs and paintings from unofficial sources.

Papers of Shui-wai Lee relating to her nursing training and permission to work in Britain.

Administrative records, photographs, miscellaneous records.

Papers of M Helen Lea comprising scrap book containing pictures of King's College Hospital, staff and buildings, visitors, wards, 1920s-1960s; and scrap book titled `High Elms, Kings College Hospital Preliminary Training School, Oct 1956', with accompanying letter and notes, 1983.

Papers relating to Lambeth Infirmary, later Lambeth Hospital, presented by Norah B. Wallis, Matron, 1919-1945, including dietary plans, notes on 'Training to become a nurse in 1906', hospital notices, statistics, reports, architectural plans, articles and photographs of wards and staff.

Papers of Mary Ethel Corry Knocker,1912-1925, including unpublished typescript memoir entitled 'Through shadows and sunshine, 1914-1918', diaries, 1912-1921, and memorabilia, including photographs, 1912-1925, mainly relating to her nursing training and service as a nurse on the Western Front during the First World War.

Personal papers of John Martin Munro Kerr, 1868-1947, including his Birth certificate, Glasgow, 1868; photocopy of certificate of marriage to Emilia Andrewina Elizabeth Johansson. British Consul's Office, Gothenburg; birth certificate of Emilia Johansson Gothenburg, 1876; election as Honorary Fellow of American Gynaecological Society, 1912; letters to Munro Kerr encouraging him to seek the chair of midwifery, University of Edinburgh, with Munro Kerr's note, 1921-1922; commission appointing Munro Kerr Regius Professor of Midwifery, University of Glasgow, 1927; letters relating to illustrations for Munro Kerr's Operative Midwifery, first edition (London, 1908), and congratulatory messages, 1907-1909; contract between Munro Kerr and his publishers E & S Livingstone relating to Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (Edinburgh, 1933), 1933; minute of agreement between Munro Kerr and three of his co-authors with E & S Livingstone, publishers for publication of J M Munro Kerr and others Combined Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, third edition (Edinburgh, 1939), 1935; certificates of degrees and Fellowship, 1890-1947; address from the Senate of the University of Glasgow on retirement as Regius Professor of Midwifery, 1934.

Papers of Mary P Kelly comprising letters of acceptance for nurse training at King's College Hospital, 24 Mar 1947, and 25 Apr 1947;
copies of printed examination question papers for the General Council of Nursing Final State Examination for the General Part of the Register, 7 Jun 1950; Borough Polytechnic King's College Nurses - Theory Examination (undated);
King's College Hospital School of Nursing prospectus (undated, post 1913) King's College Hospital regulations for nurses, Jan 1946; King's College Hospital regulations for the nursing staff with regard to the ordering, custody and administration of dangerous drugs and poisons, Apr 1949; pamphlet titled `Nurses' to be given to nurses on admission to the Training School containing a treatise on the Christian duties of nursing (undated); printed card containing a monthly order of prayer for King's College Hospital Chapel (undated);

King's College Hospital notice relating to the gradual introduction of equal pay for male and female nurses, Oct 1955;

printed copy of the Constitution of the King's College Hospital Nurses' League, Nov 1949; printed article `King's College Hospital Nurses League and badge of membership' (undated);

pamphlet A weighed diabetic diet, theline-ration' scheme', R D Lawrence, 1942 (reprinted 1949), and related leaflet `explanation to doctors';

newspaper cutting depicting members and patients in the department of gynaecological surgeon Sir William Gilliatt at King's College Hospital;

printed copy of King's College Hospital Gazette, Christmas 1950.

Papers of Ivy Keess including degree certificates, testimonials, photographs, [1909-1937].

Correspondence and papers of Robert Jones relating to his work as House Surgeon and Apothecary of the Denbighshire Infirmary and General Dispensary, 1826-1828, and to his studies in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Meath Hospital 1836-1837.

Material relating to Mary Jones comprising a collection of photographs of letters from Florence Nightingale to Mary Jones 1861-1868; photocopy of letter to [Jones] from Florence Nightingale, 12 Jan 1867, and 25 Jan1868;

photographs of letters to Jones from William Rathbone, 27 Jun 1860, relating to the building of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, also a list of specifications for the new hospital; letter from Jones to Nightingale relating to the Liverpool Infirmary, 29 Jun 1860; letter to [Jones] from William Rathbone, Secretary, Central Relief Committee, 8 Dec 1864, relating to the work of District Nurses.

Also typescript list of Florence Nightingale letters photographed; biographical information on Mary Jones (undated).

Published report of the Joint Working Party of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives on the Clinical Learning Environment and Recruitment, 2008.

Records of the Joint Working Party of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives on Minimum Standards of Care in Labour, 1997-2000, comprising correspondence, papers, notes of meetings, draft reports, final report.

Correspondence files of the joint meetings to discuss maternity care in the new National Health Service of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Committee, including papers on the background to its establishment, from 1985-1992, including minutes of meetings and publications, particularly RCOG, RCGP & RCM, Maternity Care in the New NHS: A Joint Approach, July 1992.

The collection comprises correspondence, writings and administrative material relating to the Jenner family, particularly Dr. Edward Jenner (pioneer of smallpox vaccination) and the associated Black and Davies families, 1680-1877.

The material on Edward Jenner includes papers relating to organisations set up in the aftermath of his vaccination discoveries: the National Vaccine Establishment, the Royal Jennerian Society and the London Vaccine Institution.

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Dr Stefan Cembrowicz with elderly general practitioners in the Bristol area, Dr Freddie Morgan, formerly Morgenbesser, Oct 2000, and Dr Ivor Ernest Doney, 2004.

Minutes, correspondence of Miss Mallon, College Secretary, background papers and reports of the RCOG Institutional versus Domiciliary Midwifery Committee, 1946-1957, including the committee's Report on the Obstetric Service under the National Health Service, July 1954 and 1956 revised edition.

'The story of a great adventure. The history of the foundation of the English Hospital for French Soldiers, at the Old Chateau at St Malo, September 1914, transferred March 1915 to the Grand Hotel des Greves now known as the Hospital Notre Dame des Greves, St Malo, 1915.'

Records and collection of manuscripts of the Hunterian Society, 1676-1989. The manuscript collection includes extensive letters and papers relating to the Hunter and Baillie families.

'Journal of a Red Cross VAD member on Special Service during the Great War' (in Malta), 1915-1916. The writer, Rosa Louise Hunt, describes her service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 25 Nov 1915 until 5 Mar 1916, in Malta, beginning with the news that she was being posted to a military hospital abroad, but breaking off abruptly while she was still in Malta.

Papers of John Hooper, [1786-1790], comprising manuscript notes taken at on comparative anatomy lectures by Henry Cline (1750-1827), c1790; midwifery lectures by William Lowder (fl 1778-1801), c1790; and clinical lectures by William Saunders (1743-1817), c1786-c1787.

Two volumes of notes on St Marylebone Infirmary (later St Marylebone Hospital and then St Charles' Hospital), relating to Hood's period as Medical Superindendent, 1910-1941, compiled by Dr Hood in the 1950s[?], with indexes by his daughter Mrs L Ross.