Papers of Mabel Eldridge

Scope and Content
Personal papers belonging or relating to Mabel Eldridge. File contains:
Transcription of a eulogy given at Mabel Eldridge’s funeral. Contains biographical details about Eldridge’s life and career, 2012
Candidate card for the General Nursing Council for England and Wales’ final state examination for student nurses, held at the University of London, 7 Feb 1934
Central Midwives Board register of cases, containing details about births attended by Eldridge when she worked as a district nurse in Surrey, 12 Jun 1938 -21 Mar 1940
Administrative / Biographical History
Mabel Eldridge (nee Bagnall) was born c. 1912. She grew up in Balham, London and was the youngest of six children. She completed her nursing training at St. James Hospital, Balham and took her final state examination with the General Nursing Council for England and Wales in 1934. After qualifying she began to work as a district nurse with the Queen’s Nursing Institute, first in Guildford, then Dover. She later moved back to Surrey where she worked as a midwife and got married. During the Second World War, she took a break from nursing to raise her children while her husband served overseas. When her four children were older, she returned to district nursing. Mary Eldridge passed away in 2012, aged 100.
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Royal College of Nursing

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