27th April

1920

Lady Superintendent Reports NHNN/N/1

Celia. A. M. Spackman – reports from 21 December 1915 to 9 November 1920

‘I am finding great and increasing difficulties in procuring nurses and probationers for the Hospital. I should be glad if the Nursing Committee would discuss the question, as some of the wards are now working short-handed, and more nurses are leaving next month.’

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On This Day is a diary of day to day life in the Hospital covering 1859 to the 1940’s.

Extracts are taken from the staff records, letters, the reports of the Matron and the Lady Superintendent, and the minutes of the Board of Management and the Medical Committee. They were compiled with the help of Janet Townsend, Frankie Alves, Louise Shepherd, Michael Clark and Liz Yamada

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