F . J. Hatfield Archive

Papers and correspondence relating to F. J. Hatfield's employment as a nursing assistant by York Corporation, 1940-1947 and his enrolment with the General Nursing Council as an assistant nurse in 1947.
Correspondence, printed course lessons and material and completed, marked and returned course work for a correspondence course F.J. Hatfield took in 1959 with the School of Surgical Chiropody, The Smae Institute, Leatherhead . There are also chiropody catalogues, an information booklet on chiropody as a profession, Bailliere's Synthetic Anatomy Part VI, with coloured diagrams of the foot, his chiropody certificates, 1959-60, and material relating to a postgraduate course he took in Medical Electricity for Masseurs and Chiropodists.
Group photograph of staff at St Mary's Hospital, including Mr Hatfield.
Rent books; hire purchase agreements; insurance documents; photographs; and list of staff names from the 1930s recalled by Mr Hatfield, [1930s-1990s].

Frederick Joseph Hatfield (known as Joe) was born on 14 August 1912 and died on 27 September 1999. His parents were both among the early residents of New Earswick, and his mother worked as a nurse among the local community there. It was his mother who encouraged Mr Hatfield to go into nursing. Mr Hatfield joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) during the Second World War, as a nurse (he had probably already been employed by York Corporation before the war as a nurse at the City Infirmary and Institution). After the war he nursed at the City Infirmary, which became The Grange Hospital and then St Mary's Hospital, and he became a qualified Nursing Assistant in 1947 - apparently one of the first two qualified male nurses at the hospital. Later in his career he worked at Acomb Hospital, which in 1954 had become a hospital for the elderly. He married Peggy Danby (his second wife) in 1956 and their daughter, the donor of the archive, was born in 1959.
Mr Hatfield worked permanent 12 hour night shifts, working one week on and one week off. He probably decided to extend his career to use his regular weeks off more productively. He enrolled with the School of Surgical Chiropody, The Smae Institute, Leatherhead, in 1959, and completed the chiropody course by distance learning, to qualify as a chiropodist. The survival of his course materials and his course work is unusual. He thereafter ran his chiropody career alongside his nursing career, taking all his chiropody equipment out in a bag with him on his rounds when he visited patients in their own homes.
Mr Hatfield retired from nursing in 1976, at the age of 64. He retired a year early, as in 1976 Acomb Hospital closed, in the wake of the great reorganisation of hospital services following the opening of York Hospital in that year.

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The archive was gifted to the Borthwick Institute in March 2019 by Mr Hatfield's daughter.

Frederick Joseph Hatfield (known as Joe) was born on 14 August 1912 and died on 27 September 1999. His parents were both among the early residents of New Earswick, and his mother worked as a nurse among the local community there. It was his mother who encouraged Mr Hatfield to go into nursing. Mr Hatfield joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) during the Second World War, as a nurse (he had probably already been employed by York Corporation before the war as a nurse at the City Infirmary and Institution). After the war he nursed at the City Infirmary, which became The Grange Hospital and then St Mary's Hospital, and he became a qualified Nursing Assistant in 1947 - apparently one of the first two qualified male nurses at the hospital. Later in his career he worked at Acomb Hospital, which in 1954 had become a hospital for the elderly. He married Peggy Danby (his second wife) in 1956 and their daughter, the donor of the archive, was born in 1959.
Mr Hatfield worked permanent 12 hour night shifts, working one week on and one week off. He probably decided to extend his career to use his regular weeks off more productively. He enrolled with the School of Surgical Chiropody, The Smae Institute, Leatherhead, in 1959, and completed the chiropody course by distance learning, to qualify as a chiropodist. The survival of his course materials and his course work is unusual. He thereafter ran his chiropody career alongside his nursing career, taking all his chiropody equipment out in a bag with him on his rounds when he visited patients in their own homes.
Mr Hatfield retired from nursing in 1976, at the age of 64. He retired a year early, as in 1976 Acomb Hospital closed, in the wake of the great reorganisation of hospital services following the opening of York Hospital in that year.

Information provided by Mr Hatfield's daughter, the donor of the archive.

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Created by A. Jones, 17.06.19, updated by G Brannan 14.12.21

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