V.A.D. Nurse’s Dilemma – Soldier Has Wrong Meal – WW1 PUNCH Cartoon – 1915

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

Crown Lavender Salts – The Graphic – Saturday 18th November 1911

Nurse with pince nez

Nurse – 1915

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

Dorothea Lange

Thanks to Molly @Mollysdailykiss for the quote

Lady Victor Paget (Olive May) – The Tatler – Wednesday 10th May 1916

LADY VICTOR PAGET

Whose husband is a captain in the Blues and has a Staff billet with the army in Egypt. He was at one time Assistant Military Landing Officer. He is the only brother of the Marquis of Anglesey, who is four years his senior. Lord Victor is heir-presumptive to the marquisate. Lady Victor Paget, who is an enthusiastic war worker for the Red Cross, was prior to her marriage Miss Olive May, at one time a great stage favourite.

The Tatler – Wednesday 10^th May 1916

Sister Ada – John Groom, The Crippleage, Sekforde Street, EC

WW 1 Injured soldiers with hospital staff

Two Nurses – “Ellis”

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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