Collection GB 0120 GC/56 - Woodman, Norah Blanche (b 1885)

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GB 0120 GC/56 1906-1938 Collection 1 box Woodman , Norah Blanche , b 1885 , nurse

Born 1885; commenced nursing training at Lambeth Workhouse Infirmary in 1906, gaining her certificate in 1909 and passing her CMB (midwifery) in 1911. She held various posts at Lambeth including Sister, Night-Sister and Sister of Linen Store until August 1914. Between August and December 1914 she was Matron of a Home for Destitute Areas, St. Giles, Endell Street, London, which was run by the MAB and closed by the military. Subsequently Norah Woodman was transferred as Assistant Matron, to a war Refugees Camp at Earl's Court in Decemebr 1914, being promoted to Matron in 1915. In April 1919 she was elected Matron at the Lambeth Hospital, a position held until March 1945. Woodman received the MBE and a Belgian medal in 1918.

Mrs Norah Wallis née Woodman gave the following small group of papers to the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in April 1969 (Acc No. 315442): they were subsequently placed in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Papers of Norah Woodman, 1906-1938, comprising an account of her training as a nurse in 1906; miscellaneous material on the Lambeth Infirmary/Hospital, including annual reports, 1921-1938; financial statements of the Parish of St Mary, Lambeth Board of Guardians, 1910-1929.

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

GC/56/3, Photograph of ward [J. I. ?] Lambeth Infirmary including Sister Woodman, is held by Wellcome Images at L40404.

Entry compiled from the Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

September 2008 Woodman , Norah Blanche , b 1885 , nurse Government Public administration Health services administration Literature Literary forms and genres Prose Autobiographies Medical sciences Nursing Midwifery Hospitals Medical institutions Health services Community health nursing Higher science education Medical education Lambeth Poor Law and Workhouse Infirmary Lambeth Board of Guardians London England UK Western Europe Europe Hertfordshire

Mrs Norah Wallis née Woodman gave the following small group of papers to the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in April 1969 (Acc No. 315442): they were subsequently placed in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Papers of Norah Woodman, 1906-1938, comprising an account of her training as a nurse in 1906; miscellaneous material on the Lambeth Infirmary/Hospital, including annual reports, 1921-1938; financial statements of the Parish of St Mary, Lambeth Board of Guardians, 1910-1929.

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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English

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

GC/56/3, Photograph of ward [J. I. ?] Lambeth Infirmary including Sister Woodman, is held by Wellcome Images at L40404.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• anglais