Pane Page AMERICAN NURSING' WORLD. . Davis, 3I'iss Aniiie, Isolation $gspital, West 230 Bromwich -....... i 229 Bellevue Hospital, New York Dock, Miss Back at the Nurses' SAtlement, Dawson, Miss L. L."S., Great Yarmouth His: ... .... 247 New York * ... 495 pital '1' 'I Greatest of Dears and"the Dearest of Dung2 M i s s D ., K&gs.tonaon-Thafaes, Victorya .. HoSDital . . . . . ,,U. . . . . . ... 91 Greats " ... 491 Elms, T fi s J., Sussex Eye osp Gal, Brighton 515 vis Mayou, Miss E., Resigned-.' ' *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
MATRON-IN-CHIEF. Gillies, Nrs. Janet, New Zealand Medical Corps Nursing Service Reserve . . . . . . 496 MATRONS. Acomb, Miss Lucy, Isolation Hospital, Kirlr... 193, 228 burton Acton, Wss iMiiicent' An&,' Le&ham Infirmary, S.E. ... ... 14 Allison-Smellie, Mrs. M.,'"Denni and' Dunnipace Hospital ... . . . . . . 383 Andrews, ;CIiss Ethel, Cie'adle 'Isolation HOSpital . . . . . . 109 Bell, Miss N:'S., Children's Infirmary, Carshalton ... 514 Booth, Uiss A. B., Infectiok Hospitai,"Bishop Anckland ... *** *** *** *** ***
training at the Royal Northern Infirmary, Inverness, her fever training at the County Hospital, Strathpeffer and subsequently acted as ward .sister at Ross-shire County Hospital and Sanatorium before joining the staff of the County HospitaI, Invergordon, where she is Joint Assistant Matron and Sister-in-Charge of the X-Ray department and out-patients ' tuberculosis clinic. The scholarship offers the hoIder a three or six months' course of study in England, Scotland, Norway, Denmark or Sweden, an
BAIZEWELL AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL COTTAGE HOSPITAI BAKEWELL, DERBYS. WARD SISTER (State Registerqd) requirc for small and well-appointed Hospital. Gqc acute medical and surgical work Lovely distric New salary ..scales applicab!e. Apply, with Matrons' names fo: reference, MATRON. 57 STOCKPORT AND BUXTON' HOSPITA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. STOCIZPORT INFIRMARY. '(167 BEDS.) ADDliCatiOnS are invited for the followina imm diat; vacancies : EXPERIENCED SISTER for plaster work busy Casualty Department. R
. . . . . . . .... . London County Council Hospitals . ............ Dulwich Hospital ......... ..... Hackney Hospital .... Hammersmith Hospitai' Lambeth Hospital ............ Mile End Hospital ... ...... St. Alfege's Hospital. Greenzch . . . . . . Manchester. Crumpsall Hospital Manchester. St Mary's Hospital Manchester. Withington Hospital . . . . . . Middlesbrough Municipal hlaternity Hospital Middlesex County Council Hospitals Central Middlesex County Hospita
The Minister, has expressed the thanks of the Government for this generous action, the news of which was announced on May 30th, Sir Thomas' 79th birthday. Cairndhu, which.was built by Lady Dixon's father, stands in well-timbered grounds on the County Antrim Coast Road, and commands a magnificent View of the coast line and sea. It contains 60 rooms, and can be easily adapted for hospitaI purposes. Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon have always taken a keen personal interest in hospitals and other philanth
County HospitaI, Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells.-M+s I. &I. Thorogood, S.R.N., been appointed Night Superinhas tendent. She was trained a t Charing Cross Hospital, London ;
FROM MY POST-BAG. MATRON. princess Beatrice Hospital, Earl's Court, London, S-w.-MiSS Mr. Philip Inman, Chairman, Charing Cross HospitaI, Bessie Lydon, S.R.N., has been appointed Matron. She was realises the value of letterpress: his appeal in support trained at Guy's Hospital, London, where she was later Assistant of the great hospital he helps to control makes an appeal Home Sister and Kitchen Sister. Miss Lydon has also been Housekeeping Sister,and second Assistant Matron at the Hospital t o
of k60,000, for a staff of 90. There is provision for twB additional floors,making sever in all to increase the number of bedrooms to 140. Mrs. James de Rothschild, one of the Vice-Presidents of the hospitaI, recently declared the home open. The hospital trains nurses for the State Register, so that it is to be hoped its patrons will use their influence f to prevent its degradation by association with a Roll o non-trained '' Assistant Nurses." Miss M. Hampshire, the Matron, will, we feel sure, r
Dr. Annie McCall, Director of the Maternity HospitaI at 37-43, Jeffreys Road, S.W.4, in a brief history of the hospital which bears her name, gives some interesting views on Maternal Mortality and kindred subjects after 50 years' practical experience of maternity work. She writes : " I n our first 20 years we had 12 septic cases among 20,000 patients, in the last ten years only 3 in 10,112 cases, i.e., 1 in 3,370. I feel sure that our Maternity Nurses should be trained in more detail t o be asep
Matron, Lewisham Hospital, S.E. Cert., King's College Hospital. Sufierintendent, Hornsey District Nursing Association. Member, Association of Queen's Superintendents, Cert., Bethnal Green Hospital. Chairman, The League of Mental Hospital Nurses. Matron, Middlesex Colony, Shenley, Herts. Cert., West London Hospital. President, The Infectious Hospitals Matrons' Association. Matron, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Roman Road, E.6. Cert., Royal Portsmouth, Portsea and Gosport HospitaI. Member, The Col
new Nurses' Home in connection with the magnificent new Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, no ceremony could have been more inspiring. The Home was opened by Mrs. Conradie, the wife of His Honour the Administrator of the Cape Province, Mr. J. H. Conradie, with a silver key. The proceedings opened with prayer and Mrs. Conradie addressed the meeting which we publish in full for the benefit of Nurses the world over. . Mrs. Honvood, Chairman of the Groote Schuur HospitaI Committee, in thanking the s
Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway, London, N.-iUiss Edith A. White, S.R.N., S.C.M., has been appointed Assistant Matron. She was trained at the Royal Infirmary, Leicester, the Maternity Hospital, Leicester, and at the Isolation HospitaI, Norwich. Miss White has been Out-Patient and Casualty Sister, Ward Sister and temporary Night Sister at the Royal Infirmary, Leicester ; Sister Tutor and Home Sister at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, E., and Sister Tutor at the Prince of Wales's General Hosp
The record sum of L12,438 in legacies was left to the Miller General HospitaI, Greenwich, this year. Receipts exceeded expenditure by about L5,OOO.
R.R.C., F.B.C.N. Miss Wallace started her nursing career in 1892 as a Probationer Nurse at Whitechapel. I n 1899 she was appointed t o be a Head Nurse at St. Giles' Hospitai, Camberwell, and left there the following year t o become Superintendent Nurse at Gordon Road Institution, Camberwell. She returned "THERE IS NO HAPPIto St. Giles' Hospital in 1903 NESS WITHOUT t o become the Assistant LIBERTY AND NO Matron, which post she held LIBERTY WITHOUT until 1910, when she was COURAGE." selected t o
Charing Cress HospitaI, ancl Sister there of the Gy11ZCo10giCd Ward and Thcatra, w1i0 wished t o take the Course in Public 1-1c;llth Nursin~, Shc also lick1 thc Certificate of the Central Midwivcs Ikxwrl: 2. ~ i s ~at~ilcc.lz s nfariolt wltitml, s.R.N., tsaincd at the Royal Infirmary, Zeicoskcr, :tnd Sistcr o the Children's C Ward. She also held thc Certificate of tlia Contrid Mid" wives Board. 330th candidates were highly rccomnlendcd by their Matrons, and the Sub-Cornmittcc ultimately awarded
M. B. Salton, S.R.N., has been appointed Matron. She was trained a t the General Infirmary, Leeds, and a t the Maternity Hospital, Belfast, and has been Ward Sister a t the Royal Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, Senior Sister Tutor at the Royalvictoria Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Assistant Matron a t the General Infirmary, Leeds. ffeneral Hospital, Great Yarmouth.-Miss E. Cunningham, S.R.N., has been appointed Matron. She was trained a t the Norfolk and Norwich HospitaI, Norwich, where she too
VOLUME I. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES UNTIL A.D. 16QO.M BY F `G. PARSONS, . DSc., F.R.C.S., F.S.A. (Coizcltided from page 82.) THE CLOSURE AND REFOUNDING. There is evidence t o show that St. Thomas's HospitaI like most of the rest of the ecclesiastical spoil was frittered away by Henry in gifts or sales to courtiers. Probably Cromwell had some definite scheme of a political nature for dealing with this rich harvest, but he was attainted n and executed in 1540, the year i which the hospital was surre
The Irish Free State Government has decider1 that institutions participating in the Irish Free State HospitaI Sweepstake will be deprived of their State grants this year. Nine Dublin hospitals receive annual. grants froin the Government amounting in all to L13,ooo. In future, apparently, only those hospitals which have refused to take part in the sweepstake will be assisted by the State, and the Free State Exchequer will benefit by the amount of the grants which formerly were made to participati
Boundary Park HospitaI, Oldham.-Miss E. Dickinson, S.R.N., F.B.CN., has been appointed Assistant Superintendent Nurse and Sister Tutor. She was trained at the Fir Vale Hospital, Sheffield,where she was later Staff Nurse, and has also been Ward Sister and Theatre Sister at the Tranmere Infirmary, Birkenhead, and Night Superintendent at the Holborn and Finsbury Hospital, London. Miss Dickinson also holds the Battersea Polytechnic Sister Tutor's Certscate.
County HospitaI, York.-Miss R. Gameson, S.R.N., has been appointed Sister Tutor and Home Sister. She was trained at the Derby Children's Hospital and at the Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and has since been Night Sister a t the Royal Infirmary, Blacltburn : and Assistant Matron and Sister Tutor at the East London Hospital, Shadwell.
Still, Matron of St. Thomas's Hospital, in continuance of the Correspondence published :Letter from M i s s Lloyd Still to President B.C,N. St. Thomas's HospitaI, S.E. x.
G U Y ' S HOSPITAI. P A S T A N D PRESENT NURSES' LEAQIJE. The Annual Meeting (the twenty-fourth) and sixteenth Annual Dinner of the Guy's Hospital Nurses' League, which is always such an enjoyable function at this time of year, Will be.held in the Nurses' Home on Friday, May 2nd. Dinner will be at 7 p.m., and t h e Annual hleethg ;It 8 p.?. The usual Photographic and Needleworlr Exhibibons will be held, and these exhibitseare always interesting and beautiful, t h e high standard attained making
The Physician Superintendent of Bethlem Royal Hospital (Dr. J. G. Porter Phillips has reported to the Governors that 51 I patients -212 being men and 299 women-were under treatment there last year. Of these 188 were voluntary boarders. There were discharged as having recovered 132, as being relieved 2 5 ; 20 patients died. The patients admitted during the year included many professional men, officers of H.M. Forces, and Civil servants. I n the hospitaI for nervous diseases 651 outpatients made 3
Chalfont and Gerrard's Cross Cottage Hospital.-Miss F. M. Crooks has been appointed Matron. She was trained a t the General Hospital, Walsall, and was trained in midwifery by the Maternity Nursing Association, and has been a member of the Overseas Nursing Association. She holds the certificate of the Chartered Society of Massage and Gymnastics. County and City Royal Infirmary, Perth.-Miss A. Drysdale has been appointed Night and Home Sister, alternately. She was trained a t the County HospitaI,