The Patriotic Schools as a Military Hospital: Last Saturday’s Nursing Times contained an interesting account of the transformation of the Royal Victoria Patriotic Schools, Wandsworth Common, into the 3rd London Territorial General Hospital. The article was accompanied by a very clear reproduction of a photograph showing a group of several of the staff. … (long discussion) … The nursing staff, under Miss Barton, matron of Chelsea Infirmary, as principal matron and Miss Holden, matron of the Richmond Hospital, Dublin (where she had just accomplished some admirable re-organizing) as matron, includes Miss Pinsent, matron of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (who was on the eve of a holiday), as housekeeping sister, several provincial matrons and Miss Monroe, home sister at St. Thomas’s making in all a staff of 92, twenty two of whom are sisters. Sister Watson, theatre, and ward sister at the Middlesex Hospital, is in charge of the theatre. The staff is called up from all parts of England …. All having volunteered in time of peace and having come up at a moment’s notice to serve through the war …
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GRO0664 Hennock: Mary Eliza Pinsent: 1869 – 1960