On Christmas Eve 1891, Mrs. Gardner, the matron of Blantyre Hospital, passed away from influenza after caring for numerous patients during a severe outbreak. Esteemed for her kindness and selflessness, her dedication to nursing made a lasting impression on the community. Her contributions are commemorated by the Blantyre Project.
The last of Margaret Stewart’s interesting photos from her family album. Kindly shared here from 1918, with a likely Blantyre interest is a nurse and who appears to be a decorated French soldier. The other photo, also with people unidentified shows a dining room set up, perhaps in a French hospital for medical staff. This […]
During mid March 1917, sister Miss Margaret M. Houston was awarded the Royal Red Cross decoration in recognition of valuable services in connection with World War One. She gained her nursing experience Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, afterwards spending three years in Westminster Nursing Home. At the outbreak of the war she transferred to the Red Cross […]
Jean Helen Taylor McNaught would certainly have remembered 1932 as being a bad year. The probationary Glasgow Nurse was living and working in Blantyre at the Cottage Hospital on Bardykes Road. At the end of March 1932, she appeared in court where she pled guilty to stealing 3 shillings from a boy patient’s wallet […]