The Middlesex Hospital London

A One Day Symposium

August 31st 2019 1745 - 2005

2 3 Foreward Contents

From HRH The Princess Royal

“The Middlesex Hospital provided care to cornerstone at the John Astor Nurses Home on Foreword from Her Royal Highness, 4 The Middlesex Coat of Arms 22 patients from 1745 until its closure in 2005 and 24 January 1929. The Home was opened officially The Princess Royal Photos of Nurses 24 several generations of my family were associated by Princess Alice on 29 June 1931. Greetings Chairman of the Planning Some Middlesex Notables 26 with The Middlesex Hospital and its component On 29 May 1935 the Duke of York (soon to be Committee. Dr. Nicholas Cambridge 6 Schools. My great grandmother Queen Mary Operating Theatre 28 King George VI.) accompanied by the Duchess Introduction to “The Middlesex” 7 made several visits to The Middlesex to honour opened the new Hospital. Queen Elizabeth The Humour from the Archives 29 Abstract. Dr. Nicholas Cambridge 8 the nurses who had gained the highest marks Queen Mother also made several visits to see the Cartoons 30 Abstract. Professor Clara Lowy 8 during their training to present the Annual sick patients on the wards at the start of World Supporting the Archiving Project 31 Fardon Memorial Medal. She also laid the War Two. Abstract. Lord Bernard Ribiero CBE 9 Then as Chancellor of the University of London Abstract. Dr. Jeanette Cayley 9 from 1955 to 1980 Queen Elizabeth The Queen Abstract. Ms. Faye Hughes and Mother attended other notable occasions, Ms. Kate Thorogood 10 for example the opening on 30 May 1974 of Abstract. Dr. Charles Shaw 10 the Sir Jules Thom Institute of Clinical Science. Abstract. Mrs. Jennifer Radford 11 When I succeeded her as Chancellor, I visited The Middlesex Hospital Medical School on 13 Abstract. Mrs. Sue Lewis 11 October 1982, the day of my inauguration. Abstract. Mrs. Jane Holderness-Roddam CBE 12 Despite the closure of the schools and hospitals Abstract. Professor Anthony Costello 12 their legacy lives on. As Chancellor, I am proud Abstract. Mr. Richard Evans OBE 13 of the continuing contributions made by The Abstract. Dr. John Mather 13 Middlesex Hospital-trained doctors and health professionals to the continuing care of patients Abstract. Mr. Peter Twist 14 and to the education of future generations of Abstract. Dr. Paul Thompson 14 students in an ever changing and demanding Planning Committee 15 global environment in the 21st Century. Schedule of events 16 I am delighted to send you my good wishes Matrons, Deans and Principals 18 when you celebrate the enormous contributions Christmas Concerts 20 of The Middlesex Hospital at your Symposium and Gala Dinner.” Selected Record Covers 21 HRH The Princess Royal and Sir Douglas Ranger. The Middlesex immediately prior to demolition. 4 5 Greetings Introduction

From Dr. Nicholas Cambridge (Med. Sch. ’77) Chairman of the Planning Committee The Middlesex

“I am grateful for all the support and encourage- For many it is still incomprehensible that The We hope you will enjoy this weekend of events ment I have received to turn my idea of having Middlesex Hospital and its component four and remember the many aspects of our lives a weekend of events to celebrate The Middlesex Schools are physically no longer with us. Even so, that were greatly influenced by the dedicated Hospital into a reality. My thanks go to Professor there are many year groups of doctors, nurses, consultant staff, matrons, principals, hospital su- Deborah Gill, Director, UCL Medical School, and physiotherapists, radiographers who meet up perintendents and all of those in leadership and Deanne Attreed for their encouragement and periodically to socialize and reminisce together academic positions who trained and educated us support. over a drink and a meal. There is a Middlesex 25 and for whom we worked. I would like to thank Melanie Redman who Club, The Charles Bell Group and the Middlesex The Conference Planning Committee created our excellent website advertising the Hospital Nurses’ Benevolent Fund (MHNBF) that events. also issues its Annual Journal. The name of the Middlesex is also kept alive with The Middlesex A big thank you must go to all the speakers who Hospital, London Facebook page, consisting of have worked assiduously to provide us with a 1,700 or more members and the Middlesex ‘Over comprehensive, often amusing, overview of our the Fence’ Facebook group. sadly departed hospital and its affiliated institu- tions, the medical, nursing, physiotherapy and Inspired by Dr. Nicholas Cambridge, it seemed radiography schools. timely to convene and celebrate the legacy of The Middlesex Hospital and the people Sharon Fisher and the Institute of Education’s who trained and worked there. The nascent staff have been very helpful and supportive and idea emerged into a decision by a Planning deserve our unmitigated thanks. Committee to organize a One-day symposium, a Finally, I am grateful to members of the Planning Gala Dinner, guided tours of the Fitzrovia neigh- Committee who have unstintingly worked borhood and the Fitzrovia Chapel (formerly The very hard and given great advice throughout Middlesex Hospital Chapel). numerous meetings to assure us of a hugely The symposium has talks on a broad spectrum successful symposium. I feel sure you will agree.” of hospital-related topics and includes as many groups as possible (such as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, secretaries) and those who have been patients at The Middlesex Hospital.

Rebuilt Hospital opened by the Duke of York 29 May 1935. Christmas at The Middlesex. 6 7 The Middlesex Hospital (1745-2005). Famous Middlesex Staff and their From Student to Peer via The Middlesex Acts of Mercy Paintings. Dr. Nicholas Cambridge (Med. Sch.’77) Discoveries. and The Lords. Dr. Jeanette Cayley (Med. Sch. ’70) Prof. Clara Lowy (Med. Sch. ‘58) The Lord Ribiero CBE (Med. Sch.’67)

This presentation will include a brief history of the This will be a presentation on the notable leaders of This will be a description of Lord Bernard Ribiero’s life as In about the year 1910, the mining tycoon and art-lover hospital and medical school, highlighting the many facets fundamental and applied research including such a student at The Middlesex Hospital, followed by appoint- Edmund Davis commissioned four large paintings on of our friendly and popular hospital. The lecture will also luminaries as Sir Brian Windeyer, and Professors Charles ments as House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, Researcher canvas panels from the artist Frederick Cayley Robinson provide the skeleton from which the other speakers will Dodds, Moran Campbell, Sylvia Simpson, James Tait, and Senior Registrar in surgery. He will reference some (1862-1927). These were for display in the Middlesex add flesh. My talk will include some amusing anecdotes. Deborah Doniach, Ivan Roitt, Lewis Wolpert, David Dane of the eminent surgeons with whom he worked and Hospital. They became a much-loved feature of the Although ‘The Middlesex’ finally closed its doors in 2005 and Richard Tedder. The significant basic, diagnostic describe other famous Middlesex surgeons. Finally he entrance hall until the building was demolished in 2008, its memory still lives on through the Fitzrovia chapel and therapeutic discoveries will be discussed. will describe his transition from surgery to politics as when they were acquired by the Wellcome Trust. They (formerly The Middlesex Hospital Chapel), the Grade II a Member of Parliament and provide insights into the formed part of a small exhibition at the National Gallery listed workhouse building in Cleveland Street and the Prof. Clara Lowy started medical workings of the House of Lords and its relations to the featuring work by Cayley Robinson. This talk describes various groups and graduates of the four affiliated school in 1953, won the Asher House of Commons, with legislation passed through the paintings, their meaning and their history up to the schools who meet up from time to time. scholarship and spent time in Private Members Bills. present day, as well as information about the artist. the anatomy department under Cayley Robinson was highly regarded as a mural painter Dr. Nicholas Cambridge retired the supervision of Prof. Eldred He embarked on a career in in his day and deserves to be better known. His work from general practice in 2009 Walls. She was house officer surgery and in 1979 he became tended to have a calm, meditative quality with controlled and is an Honorary Research to Prof. Windeyer and Miss a Consultant General Surgeon movement in the design, and this is apparent in “The Fellow at the University of Snelling in the Radiotherapy Department, where to Basildon Hospital, Essex, Acts of Mercy”. Buckingham in Humanities she investigated the synalbumin antagonist. developed an advanced Lapa- and Medical History. He is a After a house officer’s post at the Hammersmith roscopic Unit before retiring in Jeanette Cayley qualified MB Trustee of the Medical Society Hospital she passed her MRCP and joined 2008. He was an examiner in BS from the Middlesex Hospital of London and Editor of its Transactions. He has Professor Alan Keckwick’s Medical Unit, devel- Surgery for the Royal College of Surgeons and to Medical School in 1970. She also served as its President and has given the oping the radioimmunoassay for insulin. She the Universities of London, Oxford and Brighton. also has an MSc from UCL in Lettsomian Lecture. In 2017 he was invited to be was a registrar in Russell Fraser’s Department at In 2004 he was awarded the CBE for services to the history and philosophy the Dr T J (Jock) Murray Visiting Scholar in Medical the Hammersmith Hospital followed by a year medicine, and in 2009 he was appointed Knight of science and a diploma in Humanities at Dalhousie University, Halifax, at the Joslin clinic, Harvard on a Nuffield Schol- Bachelor. He was President of the Association medical history. She was one of Nova Scotia, Canada and gave a lecture on arship. Then a lecturer at St. Thomas’ Hospital of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland from the founders of the Faculty of Sexual and Repro- Charles Dickens to Gresham College, London. He Medical School attaining a personal chair when 1999-2000 and the Royal College of Surgeons ductive Healthcare of the RCOG and was editor is Chairman of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation, amalgamated with King’s College. Her clinical from 2005 – 2008. In December 2010 he was of its journal for ten years. Since retiring she the William Shipley Group for RSA History, the interest led to home blood sugar monitoring for appointed The Lord Ribeiro of Achimota in has continued to produce paintings, prints and Charles Bell Group to preserve the legacy of The pregnant diabetic women. The received wisdom the Republic of Ghana and of Ovington in the sculpture as a member and honorary secretary Middlesex Hospital, Chairman of The Middlesex was to admit Type I women for the last three County of Hampshire. In 2012 he was appointed of the Medical Art Society Hospital 2019 Celebrations Committee and Vice months of pregnancy so that their blood sugars Chairman of the Independent Reconfiguration (www.medicalartsociety.org.uk) and is an active President of the Johnson Society of London. He is could by measured. Since retiring from her Panel – an advisory body to the Secretary of member of the Society of Medical Writers a past President of the Hunterian Society and the personal chair at St Thomas’ Hospital, she has State for Health and in 2016-17, a member of the (www.somw.org.uk). History of Medicine Section at the Royal Society become a governor of the South Acton Children’s Select Committee on the Long-Term Sustainabili- of Medicine. Centre and spent time scanning and indexing ty of the NHS and Adult Social Care. The Middlesex Hospital Archives.

8 9 The Fitzrovia Chapel: Eponyms of The Middlesex Hospital. Middlesex Matrons: their qualities, A Decade of Physiotherapy Care at The History and Current activities. Dr. Charles Shaw (Med Sch. ’69) challenges and influence. Middlesex Hospital. Ms. Faye Hughes and Ms. Kate Thorogood Mrs. Jennifer Radford MPH Mrs. Sue Lewis (Physiotherapy School ’73)

This presentation reflects on the fascinating life of The When The Middlesex Hospital was opened (in the The personalities, roles and initiatives of some remark- This presentation will trace the development of Arthur Middlesex Hospital’s chapel, moving from its days in the marshes of Marylebone Fields) by the Earl of Northum- able Middlesex Hospital Matrons will be reviewed, Stanley House, The Middlesex Hospital School of Physi- courtyard at the centre of the hospital through to its berland in 1757, the wards either had no name – or took including their impact on nurses’ education and training, otherapy, which opened in June 1965 and its evolution current iteration as a community arts space and events the name of the ward sister. Since then the story of the living accommodation and terms and conditions of in the 1970s and 1980s. A state of the art nine bedded venue. The Grade II* listed Fitzrovia Chapel, once the hospital was reflected in over sixty departments and work. The importance and value of strong leadership by Intensive Therapy Unit was opened in 1974 directed chapel of the former Middlesex Hospital and now beau- wards named after royalty, benefactors and eminent liberated women, working collaboratively with hospital by Dr Jack Tinker - a pioneer of modern Intensive Care tifully preserved and restored, is a stunning hidden gem staff. The original buildings were demolished in 1924 administrators and doctors, during peacetime and the Therapy. Some funding was provided by Mr Joseph Sieff, in the heart of the city. Never consecrated, the nineteenth and the new West Wing was opened in 1929 by King two World Wars will be emphasized. Their key concerns then Chairman of Marks and Spencer, whose life was century chapel is a luminous place to have a secular George VI, followed by the Crosspiece and East Wing. of patient care, hygiene, personal appearance, discipline, saved at The Middlesex Hospital, 1973, when he was shot wedding, display a beautiful object, steep yourself in Many wards were named after relatives and estates of and attention to detail will reveal why Middlesex nurses in the throat. Dr Jack Tinker and ITU physiotherapist Sue history and architecture or just sit and reflect. The urban dukes and earls (many also visible in the street names always maintain high standards and why some rose to Lewis created the first Intensive Care courses for Physio- and social context of such a rare and unique place is of Marylebone), or after the extensive family of Queen become influential Matrons elsewhere. Personal recollec- therapists in the UK. key to understanding how best to put it to work for the Victoria. Some had more local or personal associations. tions and anecdotes from a number of contemporaries community it serves. We will discuss the history of the will be recounted. The effect of the Salmon Report, the Sue Lewis (née Cooper) began building and our experience as a part of the Fitzrovian Dr Charles Shaw involved rise of modern matrons and the demise of traditional training as a Physiotherapist in community, hugely influenced by the creative and social himself in the Wine and Food Hospital Matrons will be examined. 1970 at Arthur Stanley House opportunities in the area. Society, Hospital Journal and under the tutelage of the original Christmas Concerts. He did Jennifer Radford’s nursing career Principal , Miss Hillary Duffield Faye Hughes is an Artist, Writer and Director. house jobs in Cheltenham, began at The Middlesex Hospital MBE ,who was succeeded by She has more than 15 years’ experience as a residency in Bermuda, tried in 1957 and progressed to Staff her deputy Miss Evelyn Coggins creative strategist and was appointed founding Australia and then fell into Nurse, Night Sister and Ward in 1973. Upon graduation she was delighted to Artistic Director of the Fitzrovia Chapel in management. He was the Sister. She qualified as a midwife; be offered a permanent post of junior rotational September 2016. first medical director of the a Health Visitor - subsequently Physiotherapist at The Middlesex Hospital. After to Bermuda Hospitals and trained as a hospital ac- working in High Wycombe; and promotion to Senior Physiotherapist then Assistant Kate Thorogood is a theatre-maker and exhi- creditation inspector in Canada. He returned to as an Occupational Health (OH) Nurse - taking on Superintendent specializing in Respiratory and bition curator and runs the Fitzrovia Chapel’s the UK in 1978, seeking to transfer useful North several pioneering roles - in industry, the NHS, the Paediatric care, heading the new Intensive Care public programming. She began at the chapel in American ideas in quality assurance to the NHS. Civil Service (the Health and Safety Executive) and Physiotherapy team and ran the first ITU Physio- January 2017, and became Programme Curator This led to part-time appointments to the King’s the International Civil Service (WHO). In 1983 she therapy courses in the country. After the birth of in late 2018. Fund and secondment to the Department of obtained a Master of Public Health degree at Johns her first son she continued clinical teaching part Health while general manager of the Cheltenham Hopkins University (USA) and later educational qual- time but left The Middlesex Hospital and achieved hospitals. In 2001, he retired from the UK NHS ifications, at the University of London, Institute of a post graduate qualification in Obstetrics and Gy- and is freelance consultant on quality of health- Education. She has travelled extensively and worked necology working as a part time Women’s Health care to ministries of health mostly for WHO (or in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Bahrain Physiotherapist at St. George’s Hospital. Concur- anyone willing to pay). and Europe. Latterly, she was teaching and working rently she had a private practice which continues, as an independent occupational health nursing and specializing in Antenatal, Postnatal gynecological education consultant. She is now retired. Physiotherapy in Wimbledon. The Grade II* listed Fitzrovia Chapel, once the chapel of the former Middlesex Hospital. 10 11 Bedpans to Podium. The Middlesex Hospital’s global role in The legacy of Ms. Marion Frank and Winston Churchill and his June 1962 Mrs. Jane Holderness-Roddam CBE improving childbirth and newborn. Ms. Mary Craig. Hip Repair. Prof. Anthony Costello (Med Sch. ’78) Mr. Richard Evans OBE (Med Sch. ’78) Dr. John H. Mather (Med Sch.’67)

This presentation will show that while training as a Nurse The Middlesex Hospital was the first lying-in hospital for The Middlesex Hospital School of Radiography became The presentation will provide an integrated discussion (1966-69), Jane always managed to keep fit enough for women in childbirth in Britain. Throughout its history known internationally as a centre of influence and ex- of the treatment of Sir Winston Churchill for his left hip competitive equestrian events by doing 800 skips a day the hospital pioneered methods to address the care of cellence in both therapeutic and diagnostic radiography fracture in June 1962 with unpublished information on the hospital roof and running up to the 6th floor pregnant mothers and the prevention of problems in disciplines. In this presentation, the contributions of two based on interviews with Mr. Newman (Orthopedic daily. She would then go down to ride in the New Forest childbirth. In this talk I shall consider the historical con- of the most colourful and celebrated individuals to lead surgeon) and Dr Peter Dinnick (Anaesthetist). The every other day, even when on Night Duty. Jane would tribution of the hospital to maternity care, and consider the school will be considered. Each was instrumental in initial treatment in France, the surgery and the period have to secure the right rota/schedule to provide the how these principles of quality, equity and dignity for advancing the application of the sciences of diagnostic prior to discharge after 54 postoperative days will be time needed for relatively long weekends off to ride at big women remain a huge challenge for global health today. and therapeutic radiography working closely with the analyzed. Included will be material on his primary nurse three-day events to ensure qualification for the Olympics. luminaries in the field, Dr. Campbell-Golding, Sir Brian Gill Morton (nee Keefe) and other nurses such as Sally Following her return from the Olympics there were many Anthony Costello studied Windeyer and Ms. Margaret Snelling. In addition to their Muddle (nee Sinclair), the physiotherapist and radiogra- celebrations, awards and celebrity appearances. medicine and psychology at work as course leaders for Radiotherapy and Diagnostic pher with notes on the radiologist Dr. Campbell-Golding. Cambridge University and Radiography respectively, Mary Craig and Marion Frank The decisions concerning the postoperative complication Jane Holderness-Roddam (née trained at The Middlesex were both elected for periods of office as President of the that involved other physicians and surgeons will be Bullen) trained as a Middlesex Hospital in paediatrics. Until Society of Radiographers. discussed, as well as, the difficulties with managing an Hospital nurse and she was March 2018 Professor Anthony elderly statesman who had had several serious pneumo- the first British woman to Costello was Director of the Richard Evans trained as a nias, three previous surgical procedures, two strokes and ride in the Olympic three-day Department of Maternal, Child diagnostic radiographer at The other health problems. event. She was also the first and Adolescent Health, WHO Geneva. Previously Middlesex Hospital School of to win a Team Gold medal he was Director of the Institute for Global Health Radiography and qualified with Dr. Mather is President UNI-CORN at Mexico 1968. She was the at University College London (UCL) and founder the Diploma of the College of LLC and provides medical consul- winner of the Badminton of an international charity, Women and Children Radiographers in 1982. In his tations on research oversight and Horse Trials twice and once at Burghley. First. He has published 350 papers on various clinical career he worked at quality assurance. He is a certified She currently teaches riding at home and aspects of global maternal and child health, The Middlesex, The National Hospital, Queen physician executive, fully trained abroad. She frequently and regularly judges and including ten population cluster randomized Square and at Salisbury District Hospital, as an otolaryngologist, a disability officiates at international events and has written trials in India, Malawi, Bangladesh and Nepal, where he was responsible for establishing the medical examiner with certificates in over 25 equestrian books. Jane is President of which showed large reductions in maternal and CT and MRI scanning services. Richard went gerontology/geriatrics. His avocation British Equestrian Trade Association, British newborn death rates in marginalized communi- on to be a General Manager at Poole Hospital is as a medical biographer and is acknowledged as the Eventing and The Fortune Centre of Riding ties. He chaired two Lancet Commissions on the where he looked after the Radiology, Medical primary expert on the medical issues of Sir Winston Therapy. She is also a trustee of The Brooke and Health Effects of Climate Change, and is Scientific Physics, Medical Photography, Physiotherapy, Churchill. He has held several senior positions in former Chairman of The Riding for the Disabled Director of the Lancet Countdown for Climate Occupational Therapy, Dietetics and Prosthetics the government of the USA, including Chief Medical Association. She was made a CBE for “Services Action and Health. In May 2016 he received the departments. officer of the Disability, Social Security Administration to Equestrianism” and awarded the Queens BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award. His book: ‘The Richard is currently the Chief Executive Officer for for a decade prior to retirement after 30 years service. Award by the British Horse Society. Jane is also Social Edge; the Power of Sympathy Groups for the Society and College of Radiographers, a role He is an Army veteran (1973-5), the current Town a Lady in Waiting to Her Royal Highness The our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future’ was he has occupied since 2004. He was awarded an Crier of Franklin Tennessee, Douglas Clan Regent and Princess Royal. published in November 2018. OBE for services to Radiography in 2016. Rotarian He holds many elected Fellowships and a member of the UK Army/Navy Club.

12 13 Being the last patient at The Middlesex Cilia and Cornea: A potted history of before it closed. The Christmas Concerts. Planning Committee Mr. Peter Twist Dr. Paul Thompson (Med Sch.77) Within days of his referral by his GP to the University On New Year’s Day 1898 a group of medical students College Hospital for a hernia repair operation, local ventured onto the children’s ward of the Middlesex resident, Peter Twist, was surprised to be offered Hospital to bring some festive cheer to those spending the procedure not at the shiny new hospital in Christmas in bed. The concerts, without a break, have became an annual tradition. The theatrical group, the the Euston Road but in the supposed vacated and Manic Depressives (MDs) moved in 1959 to the state of deserted Middlesex Hospital. Seizing this unexpected the art Edward Lewis Theatre in the new medical school and expeditious opportunity, he recounts how, with sponsored by the head of DECCA recording studios. The Dr. Nicholas Cambridge (Chair) Ms. Faye Hughes trepidation, he picked his way up the main staircase, age of the big production number had arrived. Ever Retired GP (Med. Sch. ‘77) Artistic Director, Fitzrovia Chapel avoiding abandoned furniture, rubbish and dangling more sophisticated concerts followed and a LP record cables, to a temporary day ward. Memories of previous was made of each show courtesy of Sir Edward. Upon visits to the Middlesex in happier and sadder times came merging of the medical schools of University College and Prof. Peter Abrahams Prof. Clara Lowy flooding back. He was informed that he would be the the Middlesex in 1987, the MDs moved to the Bloomsbury Prof. Emeritus Prof of Clinical Anatomy, Prof. Emeritus St Thomas’ Hospital. Theatre. In 2012 the shows transferred to its present last patient to be operated upon that afternoon and for Univ Warwick Medical School (Med. Sch. (Med. Sch. ‘58) all time. Happily everything went well and, from then venue, the Peter Samuel Hall, Royal Free Hospital. Today, the MDs boast Edinburgh Fringe sell-out runs, a successful ‘72) to now, as an attentive neighbour he has taken a keen band ‘the Ectopic Beats’, a stalwart technical team and the interest in all that has since transpired. Dr. John Mather accolade of ‘United Hospitals Champion’ for the funniest Ms. Deanne Attreed medical school in London, whilst continuing annual President UNI-CORN LLC (Med. Sch. ‘67) Peter Twist has lived in Christmas Shows. Alumni Relations, UCL Medical School Fitzrovia since 1988, upon Mr. James Thomson being posted to Holborn Paul produced Tummy, in 1975 with his musical Ms. Paula Cupitt Former Lecturer, Dept. Anatomy (1964-66) Police Station as Superin- director Mark Paterson. After house jobs in Australia, Nursing Sister and Specialist (retired) tendent in the Metropolitan a year sailing the western Pacific & Surgical Studies (1971-75), Retired Con- Police Service. The Middlesex and a spell in the Peruvian jungle (Nursing School ‘ 78) sultant Surgeon, St Marks Hospital Hospital played a prominent Paul won a place on the medical (Med. Sch. ‘62) role in his professional and social life, particularly rotation at the London Hospital. He Mrs. Mary Embleton its importance to the local community. As the was awarded an ARC Fellowship Retired Radiographer, Principal, School of Mr. Peter Twist Chair of the Paramount Court Residents’ Asso- and was then appointed Senior Therapy Radiography 1980-90 Chairman, Camden Tour Guides Association ciation, he was very much aware of the debate Lecturer at the Royal London about its future. After the closure of the hospital, Hospital Medical School. He moved to Poole Hospital he continued to maintain his local NHS links in in 1991 where he built up the rheumatology to Dr. Michael Hall Mrs. Madelaine Ward a voluntary capacity. Following his training as ‘Hospital Doctor Rheumatology Unit of the Year 2000’. Retired Consultant Gastroenterologist, Retired Nurse Tutor, Clinical Specialist a City of London Guide in 2011 he became a He was Director, Centre for Postgraduate Medical Hereford (Med. Sch. ‘72) in Sexual Health. Chairman/President, founder member and Chair of the Camden Tour Research and Education at Bournemouth University MHNBF (Nursing Sch. ’69) Guides Association. and a member of Council of the British Society for Rheumatology. He splits his time between rural Dorset and North London.

14 15 Schedule of events Schedule of events

Morning Afternoon

9.00am - 10.00am - Registration 11.40am - 12.00pm 1.40pm - 1.45pm 3.15pm - 3.20pm Dr. Jeanette Cayley – Acts of Mercy Paintings Chairman Mrs. Maggie Gormley Chairman Dr. Nicholas Cambridge 10.00am - 10.05am Welcome by Prof. Deborah Gill 12.00 - 12.20pm 1.45pm - 2.05pm 3.20pm - 3.40pm Director, UCL Medical School Ms. Faye Hughes & Ms. Kate Thorogood - The Mrs. Jennifer Radford - Middlesex Matrons - Mr. Richard Evans - The legacy of Ms. Marion Fitzrovia Chapel: History and Current activities their qualities, challenges and influence Frank and Ms. Mary Craig 10.05am - 10.25am Dr. Nicholas Cambridge 12.20pm - 12.40pm 2.05pm - 2.25pm 3.40pm - 4.00pm The Middlesex Hospital (1745-2005) Dr. Charles Shaw - Eponyms of The Middlesex Mrs. Sue Lewis - A Decade of Physiotherapy Dr. John Mather - Winston Churchill and his Hospital Care at the Middlesex Hospital June 1962 Hip Repair 10.25am - 10.45am Prof. Clara Lowy - Famous Middlesex Staff and 12.40pm - 1.40pm - Lunch 2.25pm - 2.35pm 4.00pm - 4.10pm their Discoveries Mrs. Jane Holderness-Roddam (née) Bullen CBE - Mr. Peter Twist - Being the last patient at the Bedpans to Podium Middlesex before it closed 10.45am - 11.05am Lord Bernard Ribeiro CBE – From student to 2.35pm - 2.45pm 4.10pm - 4.20pm Peer via The Middlesex and The Lords Prof. Anthony Costello - The Middlesex Hos- Dr. Paul Thompson - Cilia and Cornea: A potted pital’s global role in improving childbirth and history of The Christmas Concerts newborn 11.05am - 11.35am - Tea, coffee and biscuits 4:20pm - 4:30pm 2.45pm - 3.15pm - Tea, coffee and biscuits Concluding Remarks by Dr. Nicholas Cambridge 11.35am - 11.40am Chairman Prof. David Linch

16 17 Matrons, Deans and Principals Principals

Matrons (Since 1870) Medical School Deans (Since 1900) Principals School of Diagnostic Radiography 1870 Miss. G.M. Thorald 1896 Dr. W. Pasteur 1935 Sister Joan Barberry 1903 Miss. Vernet 1902 Mr. John Murray 1949 Miss. Marion Frank 1909 Dame Alicia Lloyd Still 1908 Dr. H. Campbell Thomson 1981 Miss. Margaret McClennan 1913 Miss. G. Montgomery 1919 Mr. E. Webb-Johnson (later Lord) 1929 Miss. D.M. Smith 1925 Mr. E. Pearce Gould Principals School of Therapeutic Radiography 1946 Miss. M. Marriott OBE 1929 Dr. T. Izod Bennett 1964 Ms. Margaret Scott Wright 1934 Dr. H. E. A. Boldero (later Sir) 1935 Sister RM Smith 1968 Ms. Kay Biggin OBE 1954 Professor B. W. Windeyer (later Sir) 1942 Sister L Mary Craig 1967 Professor E. W. Walls 1974 Miss. Anne Wells 1974 Mr. D. Ranger (later Sir) 1980 Mrs. Mary Embleton Secretary- Superintendent (Since 1887) 1983 Mr. W. W. Slack (later Sir) 1887 F. Clare Melhado Principals School of Nuclear Medicine and 1916 Walter Kewley Medical Ultrasound 1929 S.R.C. Plimsoll Principals School of Nursing 1946 Brig. G.P Hardy-Roberts 1916 Miss. Bertha Haughton 1975 Mrs. Marilyn Swann (Walton) 1967 Mr. Graham Buckley 1938 Miss. Marjorie Wenger 1980 Miss. Julia Lovell 1974 Not Applicable 1945 Miss. Barbara Fawkes 1962 Miss. Kay Biggin OBE Principals School of Physiotherapy 1978 Miss. Edna Blake 1970 Miss. Hillary Duffield MBE 1973 Miss. Evelyn Coggins

The Middlesex Hospital Radiography group 2010. Front far right - Miss Marion Frank; back row far right - Mrs Mary Embleton

18 19 Christmas Concerts

Courtauld Institute 1973 Last Plaster in Paris 1954 The Houseman's Choice 1974 Maim 1955 The Name is the Same, 1975 Tummy or, Ham Salad Days 1976 One Threw up in The Doctor’s Mess 1956 Under Milk Drip 1977 Amenomania 1957 The Great Silverstool Handicap 1978 Casualty Night Fever 1958 Laudable Pus or Whose Knife is it Anyway? 1979 Quadroplegia Edward Lewis Theatre 1980 The Enema Strikes Back 1959 Don’t let Labour ruin it 1981 Irradiating Rita or All Quiet on the Y-Front 1982 Smiley’s Pimple 1960 Lady Chatterley’s Liver 1983 Proctopussy 1961 Great Expectorations 1984 The Honorary Tonsil 1962 Tabes in the Wood 1985 Desperately Leaking Lumen 1963 Panorrhoea 1986 Hannah and Her Cystoscope 1964 Cold Finger 1987 101 Malformations 1965 Ready Steady No 1988 Cuts 1966 Beyond the syringe 1967 Kama Suture 1968 Cilia and Cornea 1969 Oh! What a Lovely Wart! 1970 All Gas and Flatus 1971 Clap! 1972 Clockwork Orifice

Selected record covers - Christmas concerts. 20 21 Coat of Arms

The Arms were granted in 1926. Previously The heraldic description the hospital had used the Middlesex County Gules three seaxes fesswise points to Arms which are the lower part of the the sinister proper on a chief sable three present Arms. Aesculapian rods.

The motto In standard English means Miseris Succurrere Disco (from The Aeneid). On a red background are three horizontal short swords (heraldically), points to the left. When translated means The upper third is a black background with I learn to succour the distressed. three Aesculapian (god of Medicine) rods, that is three gold rods with one serpent round each.

22 23 Photos of Nurses

Removal of stitches after a thyroid operation.

Nursing School. A bear from Chipperfield’s Circus visits the hospital.

Gracie Fields visits the hospital in 1932. Choir around the piano. Swimming Gala. 24 25 Some Middlesex Notables

Dr Walter Somerville.

Sir Brian Windeyer.

Sir Bland Sutton.

Sir Charles Bell. Miss Godiva Thorold, Lady Superintendent 1870. 26 27 Operating Theatre Humour

28 29 Supporting the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and Archiving Project

If you would like to support our ongoing, important work preserving the legacy of The Middlesex Hospital, you can donate to The Middlesex Hospital Medical School Commemorative Fund.

This was established: a) To perpetuate the name and the achievements of The Middlesex Hospital Medical School (MHMS) 1835-1987 b) To undertake activity that reflects the contribution of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (MHMS) toward Medical Education and practise and to ensure that its history is maintained and promoted.

An archivist is currently employed to catalogue, maintain and promote the historical archives from the MHMS. Your donation will help ensure the sustainability of the Archiving Project long into the future, as well as allowing the continuance of the MHMS website (www.themiddlesexhospital.london ) after this commemorative weekend has ended.

Please contact Deanne Attreed [email protected] (Tel: 020 7679 0894) or [email protected] (Tel: 020 3108 3833) to find out how you can help.

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