Sir Arthur Stanley letters: committee meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN1/1/1915/4
• Dates of Creation:1 Dec 1915 - 1 May 1916
• Name of Creator:
  Stanley, Arthur (1869-1947) Politician
• Physical Description:
  0.01m

• Scope and Content

  Notes of preliminary meetings Dec. 1915; Verbatim reports of meetings Feb-Mar 1916; List of hospitals with chairs and matrons named; C.Perry and A. Stanley minutes of committees May 1916.

  Includes:

  Copy letter and notes dated 15 Dec 1915 concerning suggestions for the formation of a College of Nursing;

  Draft of proceedings of meeting of committee held 6 Dec 1915 regarding a central controlling body for state registration of nurses;

  Draft of proceedings of meeting of committee held 10 Dec 1915 regarding the formation of the Royal College of Nursing;

  List of hospitals and their chairmen;

  Copy of minutes of meeting of committee regarding the formation of a council, registration of the college with the Board of Trade (undated);

  Verbatim record of meeting held 23 Feb 1916 for the purpose of discussing the establishment of a College of Nursing;

  Verbatim record of further meeting held 24 Mar 1916 to consider the formation of the proposed College of Nursing;

  Copy of notes from the College of Nursing Ltd stating that the articles of association have assumed their final form and that registration has begun (undated);

  Letter to Sir Arthur Stanley from E.C. Perry dated 27 May 1916 referring to upcoming meeting of persons nominated for the consultative board, copies of the Bill being made and organising a meeting of the College Registration Committee;

  Report of the College Registration Committee dated 31 May 1916;

  Draft report of the Legal Registration Committee (undated);

  Draft Bill to provide for the registration of nurses.

• Access Information

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• Other Finding Aids

  online catalogue at http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/rcn_archives/collections_and_catalogue

• Conditions Governing Use

  Royal College of Nursing