Woodman, Norah Blanche

Account of her training as a nurse in 1906; miscellaneous material on the Lambeth Infirmary/Hospital, including annual reports, 1921-1938; financial statements of the Parish of St Mary, Lambeth Board of Guardians, 1910-1929.

1906-1938

1 box

Mrs Norah Wallis née Woodman gave the following small group of papers to the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in April 1969 (Acc No. 315442): they were subsequently placed in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Norah Woodman commenced nursing training at Lambeth Workhouse Infirmary in 1906, gaining her certificate in 1909 and passing her CMB (midwifery) in 1911. She held various posts at Lambeth including Sister, Night-Sister & Sister of Linen Store until August 1914. Between August and December 1914 she was Matron of a Home for Destitute Areas, St. Giles, Endell Street, London, which was run by the M.A.B and closed by the military. Subsequently Norah Woodman was transferred as Assistant Matron, to a war Refugees Camp at Earl's Court in December 1914, being promoted to Matron in 1915. In April 1919 she was elected Matron at the Lambeth Hospital, a position held until March 1945. Woodman received the MBE and a Belgian medal in 1918.

GC/56/3, Photograph of ward [J. I. ?] Lambeth Infirmary including Sister Woodman, is held by Wellcome Images at L40404