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Description: | "I have never forgotten the serving of the tea meal on that
first day of duty. The tables looked bare. A nurse literally
'dealt' slices of bread and jam.I went round with a two gallon
tea-can which contained the rather cool tea, milk and sugar.The
whole scene was reminiscent of a Dickensian workhouse."
A
student nurse, who started at Claybury Hospital in
1948.
Opened as Claybury Asylum in 1893, Claybury Hospital in
Woodford Bridge was one of the large mental asylums built at
this time on the outskirts of London. It closed in 1996 and is
now a housing estate called 'Repton Park'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Redbridge Museum | Rights holder: | Redbridge Museum | Subjects: | Public Services | Temporal: | 1900 | Source: | Redbridge Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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