The enumerator of the 1911 Census of Kingston Union Workhouse Infirmary was the matron, Miss Annie Smith. Her record and other sources provided information on the institution’s 465 in-patients, 53 resident nurses, two medical officers and 13 resident domestic servants. The Census data indicated the range of afflictions that prevailed within the community, including the workhouse, that was served by the infirmary. The evidence suggested that in 1911 the infirmary consisted of at least three buildings, constructed at different times, and there were separate wards or rooms for patients with contagious diseases, patients with learning difficulties and patients with mental illness. Maternity patients were accommodated in the workhouse. The nursing and medical standards of the infirmary appeared to be high.
Audrey Giles’ new book evolved from the research of a family anecdote about a railway accident in 1904 in which her grandfather, George Spencer, was seriously injured.
This is a PowerPoint presentation with notes which is intended to provide a virtual tour of Coombe Conduit, one of Kingston’s most important ancient monuments.
The grave of John Robert and Gertrude Pannell is in Surbiton Cemetery [Section IV, Grave 58]…
…whether the tradition arose because Biden, in 1852, used unreliable hearsay as his source?