MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/21

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Subjects include: duties as domestic and mental nursing auxiliary; mental patients' attempts to abscond and their punishment when brought back; other aspects of hospital life (side A); mental hospital life and staff, including censorship of patient post, air raid alerts, behaviour and case histories of certain patients (side B). Poor sound quality. Duration: 47 minutes 6 seconds on side A; 35 minutes 40 seconds on side B.

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During World War II and at the age 19, Clare Winterton became a nursing assistant at the Royal Eastern Counties Institution for the mentally defective in Colchester, having worked for five years as a domestic in the West Norfolk and Kings Lynn General Hospital. She left after a year to get married and in later life became a nursing auxiliary at Chatterton House, Kings Lynn.

CD copy (2 discs) at location 217/2/4 box (2)

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http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/mss229_6_c_co_7_21_side1.mp3

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/mss229_6_c_co_7_21_side2.mp3

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