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From: "Christopher Richards" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] London Hospitals
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:03:56 -0000
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20021205012356.019a7030@pop.ntlworld.com>


Thanks to everybody who replied with lots of useful information. My cousin
came from Carmarthen but even on the page that I downloaded there are other
nurses from all over the UK.
Christopher Richards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil & Heather" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: [SoG] London Hospitals


> Hi All,
>
> The hospital (on Shooter's Hill) was known as The Brook Hospital (sic) and
> was one of several in the Greenwich area. It closed down recently to
become
> a housing estate. St Elphege's Hospital (also in the Greenwich area) was
> well known because Dr Mary Walker (1888-1974) worked there and in the
> 1930's researched the effect of physostigmine on the medical condition
> myasthenia gravis. Mestinon (pyridostigmine) and neostigmine (prostigmine)
> are commonly used to treat myasthenia gravis today. They have fewer side
> effects than physostigmine.
>
>
http://www.ghtpath.dircon.co.uk/news&views/history/st_alfege/mary_walker.htm
>
> Phil.
> [a myasthenic and diabetic, living in the adjacent London Borough of
Bromley]
>
>
> At 11:55 PM 12/4/2002, Jeanne Bunting UK wrote:
>
> >Christopher
> >
> > > Found a cousin who is listed as Hospital Nurse and then the
ennumerator
> >has added Sick. But the page just says "who slept i this institution..).
> >The the piece is 563, folio is 148 and the page 6.<
> >
> >The Institution is Brooks Hospital, Shooters Hill and starts on P563 f146
> >p1
> >
> >It is described as "Under Metrolpolitan Asylums Board"
> >
> >Jeanne Bunting
>
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>
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