Four Asylum Nurses c1900

St. Michael’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Clacton-On-Sea

Colston Ward, St Barts – 1909

Edward Colston (2 November 1636 – 11 October 1721) was an English merchant, philanthropist, Tory Member of Parliament, and a benefactor and Governor of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1683-1721, who was involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

Colston followed his father in the family business becoming a sea merchant, initially trading in wine, fruits and textiles, mainly in Spain, Portugal and other European ports. By 1680, he became involved in the slave trade as a member of the Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on the English trade in enslaved African people. He was Deputy Governor of the company in 1689–90.

Colston was appointed as a Governor of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1683 at the request of King Charles II, as Colston was a Royalist sympathiser and the king was determined to promote men who would support his brother James as successor to the throne. Colston gave £500 to the hospital the in 1684 and a further £850 in 1693. The money was used to purchase an estate at Mayland in Essex. When Colston died in 1721 he bequeathed a further £500 to Bart’s, which was used to purchase a property on Giltspur Street, now the site of the medical school library.

A Colston Ward was established in 1752 in the newly built West Wing of the hospital. The ward moved to the King George V Medical Block when it was opened in 1937. It was amongst those demolished for the reconstruction of the building c2005-2010, although there was briefly a ward informally given this name in the new building.

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Nurses c1900

An interesting nursing ward setting, early 1900’s by the look of the uniforms, not sure what the plants are about.

The photographer / printer was E. W. Appleby, 27 Hertford St. Coventry.

WW1 Nurses

WW 1 injured soldiers in hospital uniform

WW 1 injured soldiers in hospital uniform

Central London Sick Asylum c1900

Someone was kind enough to share this picture with me after posting, Central London Sick Asylum c1900 which I bought at a postcards fair,

the Dr and Matron are in both, the person sharing said a relative worked there in the early 1900’s,

it’s always good to be able to add some context to social history postcards that often don’t even have an individual’s name noted.

 

 

Bellevue Hospital, NYC – operating theatre – 1900

Catch anything?

After seeing this on The Müscleheaded Blog I couldn’t resist reposting it, several years ago, after being a “lithographic camera operator” I started my nurse training and one of the placements was at a GU (clap) Clinic at one of the larger hospitals, I had a great time there and meet some interesting people but I thought that this wouldn’t have looked out of place on their wall 😮

 

 

The Rosenhan Experiment

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