• MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/20
  • 5 Apr 1979
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  • Subjects include: experience at various hospitals; trade union work, including delegation in 1934 to London County Council to protest against the system of standardising hospital staff food rations, and establishment of legal right to compensation for nurses infected by tuberculosis whilst on duty (see Mick Carpenter, 'Working for health - the history of COHSE', pages 275-276) (side A); work as full-time organiser (side B). Poor sound quality. Duration: 46 minutes 52 seconds on side A; After 27 minutes 3 seconds on side B. At this point the speakers go away from the recorder whilst recording still running. Thereafter only faint sounds heard. These have not been digitised.
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  • Doris Westmacott was a midwife sister at Mile End Hospital in London and joined the National Union of County Officers in 1933. She was a member of the NUCO national executive committee and its section for nurses. In 1941 she became the full-time organiser of the Guild of Nurses and stayed with the union until she retired in 1967.
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  • http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/mss229_6_c_co_7_20_side1.mp3
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  • Sound recordings: interviews/reminiscences
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