Hardbound paper-covered textbook with illustrations describing nursing in the home; several handwritten notes appear on the pages; title and emblem stamped into front cover; pencil markings have been made over top of the stamp; 272 pages.
Hardbound paper-covered textbook with illustrations describing nursing in the home; several handwritten notes appear on the pages; title and emblem stamped into front cover; pencil markings have been made over top of the stamp; 272 pages.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Original owner Mary E. Thompson; later owned by C. G. Bissett; donated to museum via Mary Elizabeth Rubens Swain
Printed on first page: "HOME NURSING // ST. JOHN AMBULANCE // ASSOCIATION // MILDRED HEATHER-BIGG, R.R.C. // ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL, E.C. I."; hand-written on inside front cover: "Jan. 18th 1929 // Mary E. Thompson. // 534 [Illeg.] // Winnipeg, // Man. // 36.759 // Oct. 23./39. // Mrs. C. G. Bissett // 195 University Ave. // Kingston."
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
13.7 cm
Width
10.9 cm
Depth
2.1 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 13.7 cm x Width 10.9 cm x Depth 2.1 cm
Condition Remarks
Cover worn from use; pages slightly faded
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Website
Reference Comments
Donor
"Our story: History of the Order," Museum of the Order of St. John. Accessed July 28, 2020. http://museumstjohn.org.uk/our-story/history-of-the-order/
Research Facts
Pauline Swain (October 1932 - December 2004) graduated from Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1955.
St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, is the site of the former English headquarters of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem around the 1140s, a Catholic humanitarian order created to provide medical care to the sick and injured around the year 1080. Queen Elizabeth I dissolved the Order in England, but it was reinstated by Queen Victoria in its modern sense in 1888. The site was used as a coffee house and then a pub, later becoming a museum.