Physical description

Illustrated hardcover book with dustjacket. Book has a mid-blue cover, with abbreviated title and authors surname printed in gilt on spine. The dustjacket has a coloured photograph of the front of the hospital as background. An oval black and white photograph of Sister Esther (Mother Foundress of the Community of the Holy Name) is superimposed at the top right front corner. Full title and author's name is printed in white at bottom of front. Abbreviated title and author's name printed in white on spine

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At lower right of front-end paper is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by'. D. Owen and previous catalogue number handwritten in black ink. The name Dorothy Owen is written in blue ink at top right of front end paper

Summary

A history of St George's hospital, Kew. Hospital was founded by the Church of England in 1912 and administered by the Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name until 1949. In 1925 a midwifery wing had been added, and the hospital was registered as a Midwifery Training School. The hospital was sold to the Victorian Hospitals and Charities Commission in 1949