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Miriam Bagshaw's [nursing] lecture notes and midwife's register


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8014-8015

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Miriam Bagshaw's [nursing] lecture notes and midwife's register

Date(s): 1941, 1948

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes and 3 loose inserts

Name of creator(s): Bagshaw | Miriam | fl 1941-1948 | nurse

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Lecture notes on surgery and medicine (probably for nurses), Charing Cross Hospital, with corrections by J R Nutt and London County Council (Public Health Department) midwife's register containing entries for three cases, 1941, 1948. The register gives only a brief summary of each case, but loose reports have been inserted detailing each patient's home conditions and general health, previous pregnancies, foetal examinations, summary of labour, and progress of mother and infant for 14 days following delivery.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

MS.8014 is available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. MS.8015 is closed for 100 years from the date of birth of the youngest patient, in accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act i.e. until 1 January 2020.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Hobgoblin Books, 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Childbirth | Obstetrics | Medical sciences
Infant, newborn | Infant | Age groups | Age distribution
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Patients | Health services
Surgery | Medical sciences

Personal names

Corporate names
Charing Cross Hospital
London County Council

Places