IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/202
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Nora Hains: Midwifery register
Date(s): 1935-1941
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 vol
Name of creator(s): Hains | Nora E | fl 1935-1941 | midwife
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
N E Hains gives as her address in the front of the volume as Ealing, London, but the addresses of her cases numbered 1-54 are in the city of Gloucester and surrounding villages, under the heading 'nursings', and appear to have been delivered in a hospital or maternity home. Cases 46-60 are headed 'Hereford', and all the addresses appear to be in the city, but a note 'transferred to general side' implies that these were also births in a hospital or nursing home. The remaining 192 cases are headed 'Farnham Common, but although cases 61-195 are from streets (presumably in Farnham Common, Bucks.) apart from one case from the nearby village of Hedgerley, cases 196-253 are from more rural addresses including Kingsfold and Warnham, which are villages near Horsham in Sussex. There is also a different set of attending doctors to these latter cases, all of which implies that Miss Hains had moved again.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Central Midwives Board register of cases kept by N E Hains, 1935-1941, in Gloucester (Feb-Aug 1935), Hereford (Jan-Mar 1936), Farnham Common (Apr 1936-Mar 1938) and Horsham (May 1938-Oct 1941). The register is a standard pre-printed volume produced by the Central Midwives Board showing patients' names and addresses, date of expected confinement, numbers of previous labours and miscarriages, date and hour of birth, and details of doctor assisting, patients' conditions, drugs or other aid given. Under 'date and time of midwives arrival', the information for cases 1-45 is of admittal or transfer to labour ward, but thereafter times and dates are given alone, which may imply that these were home confinements.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
This item was received by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1996 from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, to which it had been donated by Mrs A M Dey, niece and executor of Miss Hains.
Conditions governing access:
Closed until 1st January 2042.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009