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A childbirth education resource containing reproductions of twenty-four life-size photographic prints of Robert Latou Dickinson, MD, and Abram Belskie's sculptures of fertilisation, growth, stages of labour and involution with explanations of the baby's development.

Book plate inside front cover reads; 'To the Queen's Nurse-Midwives with the compliments of the Maternity Center Association, 654 Madison Avenue, New York'

Registers cover the following dates;

1932-1949

1949-1960

1960-1965

Framed certificates and a letter relating to Janet Bassford qualifying as a Medical and Surgical Nurse and having passed Sick Room Cookery. The certificates are accompanied with a handwritten letter signed E.Bassford written in April 1975 which describes Janet Bassford's career as a nurse and death in December 1974.

Shield is inscribed;

"Practical Nursing Challenge Shield, Old Church Hospital. Presented by the South Essex Division B.M.A."

Publications produced by Redwood College of Health Studies.

Records of the Redwood College of Health Studies comprising:

RCHS/1 Student Records, 1932-1990

RCHS/2 Photographs, 1920s-1990s

RCHS/3 Silverware, Shields and Plaques, c.1940-1970s

RCHS/4 Birth Atlas, 1950s

RCHS/5 Nurses Cloaks, c.1970s

RCHS/6 Nurse Training Guide, 1974

RCHS/7 Publications, 1993

Comprises Issue 1 of Redwood Journal, Autumn 1993.

Of the fifteen registers, four contain individual student records for those studying midwifery and one for those studying the special baby care course. The registers cover the following dates:

November 1968 - April 1974

February 1973 - April 1976

July 1976 - April 1979

August 1975 - February 1977

The remaining registers contain attendance registers, assignments and coursework and examination marks for students studying midwifery. They cover the following dates:

August 1968 - August 1979

January 1973 - April 1976

February 1974 - December 1978

May 1974 - November 1977

July 1976 - July 1979

April 1979 - February 1982

July 1981 - August 1985

June 1982 - November 1986

August 1982 - September 1988

March 1988 - March 1993

August 1990 - March 1992

Group photo of students in their graduation robes.

Contain personal information, reports and course details.

Nursing records for hospitals which were part of part of the Forest Group School of Nursing centred on Whipps Cross Hospital, training nurses for both the Register and the Roll of Nurses. Three year training for the Register was offered at Whipps Cross Hospital. Two year training for the Roll was offered at Whipps Cross Hospital, Wanstead Hospital, Connaught Hospital and Chingford Hospital.