Passmore Edwards District Cottage Hospital, Tilbury, Essex, also known as Tilbury and Grays District Cottage Hospital was a hospital in Tilbury, Essex.
History
editThe hospital was one of several cottage hospitals funded by John Passmore Edwards, a wealthy philanthropist, journalist, newspaper owner and Member of Parliament. In 1894 Tilbury had a population of 14,000, a busy dock, but no hospital.[1] Passmore Edwards agreed to contribute £2000 towards the construction of a cottage hospital.[1] He was asked to lay the foundation stone in October 1895,[2] the hospital opened in 1896, and was enlarged in 1900-1901.[3] The hospital Chairman was Sidney Holland[4] who had just joined the management committee of The London Hospital, in Whitechapel, and was also Chairman of Poplar Hospital.[5][6][7] The hospital closed in 1969 and hospital provision was taken over by Orsett Hospital, now Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[8]
Notable staff
editThe first two matrons both trained at The London Hospital under Matron Eva Luckes.[9]
- Caroline Myra Watson (1856-1948), Matron 1896-1915.[9][10][11][12] Watson trained between 1889-1891 and stayed on to work as a staff nurse afterwards.[13][14] In 1895 she moved to Poplar Hospital as a Sister.[14] As hospital Chairman, Holland oversaw the selection of a matron for the new hospital and appointed Watson without advertising the position.[4]
- Anna Cornelia Jeppsen (1880-1951), Matron 1915- until at least 1918.[15] Jeppsen trained between 1910-1912.[16] After her training she stayed on as a staff nurse and undertook Midwifery training before becoming matron in Tilbury.[17][18][19]
References
edit- ^ a b "Passmore Edwards' Munificence". South Wales Daily News: 5. 5 April 1894 – via www.rcn.org.
- ^ "Cottage Hospital: Tilbury". Essex Herald: 7. 8 October 1895 – via www.rcn.org.
- ^ Burdett, Henry (1907). Burdett’s Hospital and Charities Annual 1907. The Scientific Press. p. 271.
- ^ a b Matron’s Annual Letter, No.3; Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.3, June 1896, 8; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
- ^ Holland, Sydney (1926). In Black and White. Edward Arnold.
- ^ Gore, John (1936). Sydney Holland: Lord Knutsford, A Memoir. John Murray.
- ^ Gore, John, revised by Patrick Wallis, ‘Holland, Sydney George, second Viscount Knutsford, (1855–1931)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004) Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33943, accessed on 1 June 2020
- ^ "Lost_Hospitals_of_London". www.ezitis.myzen.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ a b Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders: 1880–1919' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022).
- ^ 0 Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.3, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.3, June 1896, 8; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London.
- ^ "Appointments". The Hospital. 20 (507): xciv. 13 June 1896 – via www.rcn.org.
- ^ Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.22, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.22, June 1915, 46; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
- ^ Caroline Myra Watson, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/3, 96; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London 4139
- ^ a b Caroline Myra Watson, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1, 121; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
- ^ "Festivities at The Hospitals: Tilbury". The Essex Weekly News: 3. 28 December 1917 – via www.rcn.org.
- ^ Anna Cornelia Jeppsen, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/17, 112; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
- ^ Anna Cornelia Jeppsen, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/3, 296; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
- ^ "Appointments". The British Journal of Nursing. 55: 488. 11 December 1915 – via www.rcn.org.
- ^ Jeppsen, Anna Cornelia, The Midwives Roll, 1915, 783. Accessed on 14 October 2018 available via ancestry.co.uk