NRS-16208 | Matron's Report Book [Wallsend District Hospital]

This manuscript volume is the master copy, kept up in the hands of successive Matrons and Acting Matrons, of reports presented to monthly meetings of the Board of Directors of the Wallsend Mining District Hospital during the years 1921 to 1934. Reports typically deal with staffing, patient numbers and the state of hospital premises and supplies, with accounts of any problems or noteworthy incidents which have arisen during the month covered. Each report is signed and dated by its author. Along with the reports proper, this volume includes the texts of some other communications from the Matron to the Board.This series supplements series no. 16172 (Board and Committees: minutes [first series]), and is a precursor to series no. 16177 (Monthly and Annual Reports, 1934 - 1986). The latter series does not begin recording Matron's Reports until October, 1936, but the presence of a substantial number of blank pages after the final entry in the present volume is sufficient to demonstrate that this series ended with the entry for the eighth of April, 1934.It is possible that an earlier volume of reports, covering the period before 1921, has been lost.