![]() ![]() ![]() “Sad to relate some of these gallant girls lost their lives in this never-to-be-forgotten scourge and as I write I can see some of them now literally fighting to save their friends then going down and dying themselves.”Īn engraving of the St Marylebone Infirmary when it opened in 1881. “Each day the difficulties became more pronounced as the patients increased and the nurses decreased, going down like ninepins themselves,” Hood wrote. Having been decorated for bravery under fire, many nurses now fell victim to influenza. In normal circumstances, St Marylebone Infirmary ought to have been able to cope, but 1918 was not a normal time: by November, when the first world war came to an end, around half of the hospital’s nurses had been called to military service. “The staff fought like Trojans to feed the patients, scramble as best they could through the most elementary nursing and keep the delirious in bed!” “All training, and indeed every sort of trimming, went by the board,” Hood recalled in his notebook 30 years later. ![]() Short film created by Mark Honigsbaum, Patrick Blower and Malcolm Willett from for the exhibition. ![]()
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