Samuel, Catherine Bruce

This material is held atLothian Health Services Archive

  • Reference
    • GB 239 GD1/46
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1917-1929
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 43 items: papers, bound volumes, photographs, objects

Scope and Content

Fever nursing certificates 1920-1925; correspondence 1917-1929; Fever Nurse Training regulations; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh regulations; General Nursing Council for Scotland rules 1925; lecture notebooks 1917-1923; miscellaneous textbooks and periodicals; photographs; thermometer

Administrative / Biographical History

Born on 27th August 1892. Between 1917 and 1920 she trained as a fever nurse at City Hospital, and in 1922 came to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to train in general nursing. She gained her certificates in 1925 and was appointed Staff Nurse in April, and Theatre Charge Nurse in October of that year. On 31st October 1929 she left the Royal Infirmary to take up a post of School Nurse.

Arrangement

Chronological within record class

Access Information

None

Acquisition Information

I. J. Samuel, Edinburgh, March 1990

Note

Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists

Other Finding Aids

Manual item-level descriptive list available

Custodial History

Papers held within family

Accruals

No further accessions are expected