Minutes of the College of Nursing Council meetings

Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1917
Dates of Creation:1917
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Scope and Content
Meetings were held roughly every fortnight and started with the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, resolutions from previous meetings, financial reports and correspondence received. At the end of each meeting numbers of members were reported.
Topics discussed by Council during 1917 include:
The inaugural meeting of the Irish Board, held on 22 Oct 1916
Office accommodation
The State Registration of trained nurses and the State Registration Bill
VADs
Members killed on active service during the First World War
This volume is indexed.
This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: the original set is handwritten and signed, and in a volume which runs from 1 Apr 1916 to 1 Feb 1918. This volume is kept in Store B. The other set is a typed copy of the original and in a volume which runs from 1 Apr 1916 to 18 Jun 1919. This volume is kept in Store A.
Access Information
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.
Other Finding Aids
Most recent online Royal College of Nursing Archives Catalogue is available at http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/library_and_heritage_services.
Conditions Governing Use
Royal College of Nursing
Custodial History
The main bulk of volumes came from London library historical collection to Edinburgh with the Archives' collections in 1992. Library maintained a copy set. From 1992 up until 2009 the papers were transferred directly by Council and Committee Admin (previously 'General Secretariat', or 'General Secretary's Office') One copy went to RCN Library for binding and the original to Archives, unbound. In January 2017 the two sets were brought together to create one full run of papers and an additional run, with copies of most years. The more complete set is held in Store A and the less complete set in Store B.