Papers of Elizabeth McLoughlin

Personal papers belonging to nurse, midwife and district nurse Elizabeth McLoughlin. This collection includes:

Central Midwives Board certificate, 22 Mar 1950

Letter from R.J. Fenney, Secretary, Central Midwives Board to Elizabeth McLoughlin regarding the use of gas and air in midwife practice, c. 1950

Letter from R.J. Fenney, Secretary, Central Midwives Board to Elizabeth McLoughlin informing her that she has successfully passed her midwives exams, Apr 1950

Midwives refresher course certificate from the City of Bradford Health Department, 12 Sep 1969

General Nursing Council for England and Wales Certificate, 26 Nov 1937

Receipt from the General Nursing Council for England and Wales for subscription fees paid by Elizabeth McLoughlin to the council, 1959

Six registers of midwife and nursing cases, including:

One brown, paper-bound notebook titled “Central Midwife Board, Register of Cases.” This contains details about McLoughlin’s patients in Buckinghamshire, 1959-1962

One brown, paper-bound notebook titled “Central Midwife Board, Register of Cases.” This contains details about McLoughlin’s patients in Buckinghamshire, 1962-1965

One brown, paper-bound notebook titled “Central Midwife Board, Register of Cases.” This contains details about McLoughlin’s patients in Buckinghamshire, 1965-1971

One brown, paper-bound notebook titled “Central Midwife Board, Register of Cases.” This contains details about McLoughlin’s patients in Sutton and Oxfordshire, 1971-1977

One brown, paper-bound notebook titled “Central Midwife Board, Register of Cases.” The notebook has been repurposed to contain details about patients in her district nursing region in West Oxfordshire, 1974-1980

One brown, pape-bound notebook titled “Central Midwife Board, Register of Cases II (Personal Deliveries).” This contains details about McLoughlin’s midwifery patients in Oxfordshire, 1979-1980

Elizabeth McLoughlin was born in Landport, Portsmouth in 1915. She spent a most of her childhood in Ireland before travelling to London to train as a nurse aged 18 (c.1933). She did her general nursing training in North Middlesex Hospital for three years, spent two years training as a fever nurse in Stockwell Hospital and a year and a half training as a midwife in Hampstead Hospital. The General Nursing Council of England and Wales certified her as a fever nurse in 1937 and she received her Central Midwife Board certificate in 1950. She worked as a nurse in various London hospitals throughout the 1940s, including North Middlesex, Amersham, St. James’, New End Hospital and an RAF Hospital. In 1950 she travelled to New Zealand where she worked as a nurse and midwife. She returned to England c. 1959 where she continued to work as a nurse and midwife in Oxfordshire. She was re-enrolled onto the General Nursing Council for England and Wales’ nursing register in 1959. In the 1970s she worked as a midwifery community tutor in West Oxfordshire with Nurse Jean Nulty (C925).

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