Nursing
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE5/3/18
- Dates of Creation:1937 - 1943
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:4 files Typed document
Scope and Content
Includes:
File 1 - circular from the Ministry of Health on compiling a register of nurses, February 1939; letter from Noah Morris enclosing some observations on staffing; rough notes on clinic lay-out; letter from Ronald Stewart, Deputy Medical Officer for Mental Services, on male nurses only in male observation wards, September 1938; numbers of technical assistants in each hospital; statistics for waiting list and tuberculosis admissions, September 1938; sources of increased work [for nurses] in recent years [part of incomplete document]; newspaper cuttings - job advertisement for nursing staff by London County Council and change in uniform at Greenock Royal Infirmary; memorandum to Dr MacGregor on the volume of work undertaken by nurses at Stobhill Hospital, April 1938; numbers of assistant matrons at Stobhill; duties of physician superintendent at Shieldhall Hospital; proposal to establish a Salaries Committee for Nurses; separated bundle of correspondence on fever training and tuberculosis nursing for student nurses and employment of women (control of engagement) orders, 1943
File 2 - memorandum from MacGregor on new nurses' salaries, July 1943; Ministry of Health First Report of Nurses Salaries Committee - Salaries and Emoluments of Female Nurses in Hospitals, 1943; Department of Health for Scotland Scottish Nurses' Salaries Committee Interim Report and Second Report, 1943; Ministry of Health Report of Midwives Salaries Committee, 1943; Department of Health for Scotland Report of the Scottish Departmental Committee on Nursing with inserts - prospectus for Kilburn Polytechnic course for entry into nursing profession, wastage of nurses and notice of MacGregor's lecture on Health and the Nurse; comparison of Taylor and Rushcliffe scales of nurses salaries; Minute of Joint Meeting of the Special Committee on Conditions of Service and the Committee on Health, 1943; Corporation of the City of Glasgow Public Health Department Report by Medical Officer of Health on Second Report of Scottish Nurses' Salaries Committee, May 1943; recruitment of nurses - summary of replies received [from all local authorities in Britain] to circular letter dated 7th January 1937
File 3 - separated bundle including British Medical Journal supplement on training of nurses, National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO) brochure 'A Woman's Calling' on jobs for women in nursing, 'Off duty' brochure calling for nurses to join a trade union, Public Health journal with article on the evidence submitted by the Society of Medical Officers of Health on nursing, memorandum by the Scottish National Health Visitors' Association on nurse recruitment, Departmental Committee on Nursing preliminary statement of evidence on behalf of the Corporation of Glasgow and report by the Medical Officer of Health, statement showing number of nurses in relation to patients in Glasgow April 1935; memorandum by NALGO to the Departmental Committee
File 4 - separated bundle on nursing conditions including detailed report of conditions at Knightswood and Stobhill Hospitals and ratio of staff at Robroyston Hospital. Printed and typed items.
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