Title: Matron: reports

Reference: MVH/N/1/1

Date: May 1884 to Jan 1911

Description: Contains the following entry: 'I have to report that, in the end of November, in consequence of the serious operation performed on John Mitchell, I was obliged to obtain the services of a surgical nurse from the Westminster Training Home, who remained with us for a fortnight at a charge of £1.11.6 per week . . .' (13 January 1885). [This is said to be the only extant contemporary evidence for the operation carried out at Maida Vale Hospital on 25 November 1884 by Sir Rickman Godlee to remove a tumour from a patient's brain.]

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Parent: Matron: reports

Storage Reference: 1 volume [Vol 323]

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Date: May 1884 - Jan 1911 Level: File Admin history: In an appendix to Anthony Feiling, ‘A History of Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases’, 1958, page 60, the patient is described as ‘Henderson … a native of Dumfries’. John Mitchell’s death certificate is reproduced here: http://www.ozbraintumour.org/MitchellDeathCertificate.pdf and shows that he was a 25 year old farm labourer from Camberwell.

Keywords: Matron,Maida Vale Hospital Staff,Godlee Sir Rickman John Cat status: Catalogued Term: Nurses Nursing Person key: Godlee; Sir; Rickman John (1849-1925); surgeon; neurologist

Keywords: Calm Archives

Compilations: NHNN archives

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