Papers of Jean Nulty

• Reference:GB 1199 C925
• Dates of Creation:1938-1974
• Physical Description:
  0.01m

• Scope and Content

  Personal papers belonging to Nurse Jean Nulty. This collection includes:

  Letter from the Oxfordshire County Council Medical Officer regarding Nulty’s employment as a district nurse in Oxfordshire, 29 Mar 1974

  Facsimile copy of a letter from the Oxfordshire County Council Medical Officer regarding Nulty’s employment as a district nurse in Oxfordshire, 11 Mar 1963

  A4 sheet of paper containing typed lyrics and music notation for a song written by Nulty about about "glass breast shells". The song is titled “How do my midwife’s babies grow?” On the right hand of the documents side is a black and white illustration of an NHS midwife holding glass bottles and a watering can. She is standing in a garden in a garden where all the flowers have been replaced with children's heads.

  Handwritten copy of a poem about glass breast shells, written by Nulty.

  Handwritten note beginning with “Dear Midwife…” from a patient who refers to herself as “your milkmaid” The patient states that she has broken her glass breast shell and requests that McNulty provides another, undated

  Newspaper clipping of an article titled “Midwifery Protest.” At the top of the clipping, Nulty has written “July 1938” in blue ink, Jul 1938

  Thirteen sets of patient case notes, written on seperate cards 1968 - 1972

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Jean Nulty was born in 1928 in Berkeley, County Durham. She grew up in Cramlington, Northumberland, before moving to Walker Gate, Newcastle in 1943 to train as a nurse. During her training, she specialised in caring for children with fevers. In the 1970s she worked as a district nurse in West Oxfordshire in conjunction with Nurse Elizabeth McLoughlin (C924)

• Access Information

  This collection is available for research subject to data protection laws. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.

• Conditions Governing Use

  Royal College of Nursing

• Related Material

  T/224