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GD1/27 Hannah Church Eccleston, nurse

Collection Summary

Reference Code: GB239 GD1/27
Title: Eccleston, Hannah Church
Dates of Creation of Material: 1884-1919
Level of Description: Fonds
Extent and Medium of the Unit of Description: 1 item: papers

Name of creator(s): Hannah Church Eccleston (d.1919) nurse
Biographical History: Hannah Eccleston trained as a nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. After finishing her training in 1884 she went to New York, where she worked first at St. Luke's Hospital and then in private practice. She died in 1919.
Archival History: Unknown
Immediate Source of Acquisition or Transfer: Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital, June 1987

Scope and Content: Certificate of Hannah Eccleston's training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh School of Nursing 1884; obituary 1919
Accruals: No further accessions are expected
System of Arrangement: Chronological within record class

Conditions Governing Access: None
Conditions Governing Reproduction: Reproduction is subject to closure periods and physical condition
Language/Scripts of Material: English

Archivists' Notes: Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists
Rules or Conventions: Description based on ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description International Council on Archives (2nd edition), 2000
Date(s) of Description: May 2000; revised June 2002