Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1949-1978 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
- Guy's Hospital School of Nursing
- London
Scope and content
Guy's Hospital School of Nursing records comprising a register of Student nurses, 1949-1972; and examination number book, 1963-1978.
System of arrangement
Chronological
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
The first nursing staff were appointed to Guy's Hospital by the Court of Committees, 11 May 1725. In 1877, the Superintendent and one of the physicians began giving lectures to nurses. Guy's Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1880. E Cooper Perry, Dean of Guy's Hospital Medical School and Superintendant of the Hospital, directed a significant reorganisation of nursing provision and training at Guy's Hospital. In 1902 the Henrietta Raphael Nurses Home opened. Applicants for appointment as probationers were received for preliminary training courses before entering the wards. That same year the Guy's Past and Present Nurses League was formed. In 1923, the age of entry for Probationer Nurses was reduced from 23 to 21 years. In 1924, nurses from the Cancer Hospital, Royal Ophthalmic Hospital and Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital, Margate, were admitted for two years further training at Guy's, in order to obtain registration. By 1929, the length of training stood at three and a half years, by 1937, it had been extended to four years. In 1932, the Women's Training School was established to manage the School of Nursing, the School of Massage and Medical Gymnastics, and the School of Electrotherapy and Radiography. In 1939, the School of Midwifery was added to its responsibilities. About 1945, the Preliminary Training School moved to Holmsdale, Redhill, and the nurses attended the Redhill Technical School for some courses as well as one day per week at Guy's Hospital. In 1965, it was returned to the Guy's Hospital site.
Repository
Custodial history
Transferred from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, 1999/2000
Conditions governing access
Files containing personal data are closed for 80 years and sensitive personal data for 100 years from the date of the most recent document in the file.
Where open, access is subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
Detailed catlaogue
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Guy's Hospital School of Nursing, London (Subject)
- Thomas Guy School of Nursing, London (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Sources: Mr Guy's Hospital 1726-1948, H C Cameron (Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1954); Guy's Hospital, 250 Years, edited Clive E Handler, Guy's Hospital Gazette, 1976. Compiled by Alison Field