This collection consists of copies of the printed annual reports of the Florence Nightingale Fund. The first report includes information about the agreement between the Fund and St Thomas' Hospital. The Nightingale Fund laid out strict duties of the probationer - they were required to be "sober, honest, truthful, trustworthy, punctual, quiet and orderly, cleanly and neat" and set out 13 separate nursing skills they had to achieve. The first 11 successful candidates are names on the report: Mary Baker; Jane Elizabeth Couchman; Annie Lees; Charlotte Nixon; Harriet Parker; Georgina H. Pike; Fanny Wilde; Emily Medhurst; Mary Ann Phillips; Caroline Stone and Emma Whitlock.
Reports as follows:
1861-1862
partial 1863
1865-1867
1871-1872
1875-1885 (1881 damaged)
1887-1892
1894-1916 (1901 damaged)
1917-1921
1923-1932
1934-1935
1938-1939
1941-1958
1960-1964
1966
1970