Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1929 / Papworth Village Settlement.

  • Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England)
Date:
1930
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Credit: Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1929 / Papworth Village Settlement. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tee of the British Red Cross Society and Society of St. John of Jerusalem, on condition that an equal amount was raised elsewhere. This workshop into which the cabinet-makers hope soon to move, will be supplied with new machinery and a very special dust ex¬ tracting plant. The Flower Show then received the Royal visitors who, after the formal opening, made a detailed inspection of all the goods made in the workshops as well as all the flowers, fruits and vegetables grown in the village. This Flower Show which is now an annual event of some importance, has a beau¬ tiful background in the grounds of Papworth Hall, and it brings many thousands of visitors to see the Village Settlement. On September 19th, Her Majesty the Queen paid a surprise visit—just to see how everything was working on an ordinary day. Her Majesty went over all the workshops and through the wards, and anyone who knows the size of Papworth today knows that this is a strenuous task. In writing to Sir Frederick Milner, who was unable to be present to receive Her Majesty, she said: “What an amazing place, and what wonderful work.” The other visitors this year include the Minister of Health on July 23rd and again on September 18th; the Minister of Pensions, Mr. George Lansbury, First Commissioner of Works, the Turkish Minister of Health, the Canadian Minister and Deputy Minister of Health and Pensions, and two parties of foreign nurses under the auspices of the League of the Red Cross Societies. Our much-loved and hardworking Chairman, The Right Hon. Sir Fred¬ erick Milner attained this year his 80th birthday, and his friends determined to raise a fund for a birthday gift in his honour. The fund reached the sum of some £8,900, and Sir Frederick gen¬ erously decided that Papworth should benefit by one half of it, and Enham Village Centre by the other. The important building of the year, besides the Women’s Hostel, is the new wing to the Nurses’ Home on the hill opposite the Church. This addition will house ten more nurses. By the
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