Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Collection
Category
Archival
Communication
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Nursing
Ephemera
Classification
Archival, Publications
Archival
Communication
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Nursing
Ephemera
Accession Number
001043006
Description
A staple-bound booklet containing a speech given by Sir George Newman on Florence Nightingale; brown cover; 16 pages; Has a lamp on the top of the cover.
A staple-bound booklet containing a speech given by Sir George Newman on Florence Nightingale; brown cover; 16 pages; Has a lamp on the top of the cover.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Originally came from Priscilla Dodd of the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1931.
Printed on the cover: "THE COMMEMORATION // OF // FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE // An Oration Delivered // by // Sir George Newman, K. C. B., M. D., F. R. C. P. // before the General Meeting of the // International Council of Nurses // London. July 1937"; handwritten on the upper right corner of the cover: "E. Priscilla Dodd // Oct. 1938"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-2 Box 8
Length
24.6 cm
Width
16.4 cm
Depth
0.2 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Condition Remarks
Like new
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Website
Biography
Reference Comments
Marilyn Boston
British Library, "The Nightingale Home and Training School for Nurses, St. Thomas's Hospital," https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-nightingale-home-and-training-school-for-nurses-st-thomass-hospital
Steve Sturdy, "Newman, Sir George," 03 October 2013, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. https://doi-org.proxy.queensu.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/35215
Research Facts
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) had become a national hero in 1854 for her work running an army field hospital during the Crimean War. The famous ‘Lady with the Lamp’, so-called for her habit of patrolling the wards even at night, noticed while in Crimea that more soldiers in her care were dying from infectious diseases than were dying from wounds. She thought this was due to overcrowding and malnutrition, but her proposed solutions – better ventilation and better sanitation – were effectively the foundation of modern nursing. More generally, she believed that patient health depends on the environmental conditions in which they recover from injuries and diseases, in addition to the directly palliative care they may be receiving. She put great emphasis not just on hygiene, but on access to natural light and fresh air.
Sir George Newman (1870-1948) was a medical officer of health and a Quaker. In 1890 he became one of the secretaries of the Medical Students' Christian Association at Edinburgh University. In January 1896 Newman was appointed part-time demonstrator at King's College, London, at a salary of £100 per annum, teaching practical classes under the professor of bacteriology, Edgar Crookshank. Over his lifetime he wrote books on bacteriology and public health, Through practices of isolation, investigation, and surveillance, he worked to prevent the spread of diseases like smallpox and tuberculosis. In 1906, Newman published "Infant Mortality: a Social Problem," a famous and influential work describing the work he had done in Finsbury to provide clean milk and education in infant management and the maintenance of a hygienic home environment to mothers. He was also involved in government health initiatives, the First World War effort, and temperance.