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Matron Florence Birkin: one nurse's untold history

The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum Reading, holds the archive of Wallingford and Crowmarsh Joint Isolation Hospital (WCJIH) from its inception in 1899 to 1948. The archive provides a valuable insight into what a nurse’s duties consisted of prior to the establishment of the NHS in 1948. This blog looks at the untold story of Matron Florence Birkin.

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