The following entries come from the St. Thomas’ Hospital Ward Register 1858-1866, held at the London Metropolitan Archives (reference H01/ST/C/02/002, the pages are unnumbered).

The hospital was located in Southwark until 1862, when it left its ancient site to make way for railway construction. The hospital was temporarily housed at Royal Surrey Gardens in Newington until re-locating to its present site in Lambeth in 1871 – hence the references to “Surrey Gdns” and the old hospital.

The book lists nursing staff employed on the individual wards as staff nurses (S.N.) or night nurses (N.N.).

Entries below relate to:

• Jane Squires
• Betty Lillycrapp

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Female Surgical Ward at Surrey Gdns.

Name	Age	When appointed		Duty when discharged	Remarks
J. Squires	29	24 July 1862	S. N.	8 July 1863	Sent as Nurse to County Hospl. Dorset

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The following note was written against this entry and some others: “All transferred from the Old Hospl.”

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Female Surgical W. at Surrey Gdns.

Name	Age	When appointed		Duty when discharged	Remarks
B. Lillcrapp	34	24 June 1863	N. N.	24 March 1864	Sent as Nurse to the General Hospl. Northampton