Nurse Morton Album

Anne Ward Morton

Nurse Morton worked in the linen room at the General Hospital, and in her spare time sketched a series of drawings. She was not a great draftsman but the images she produced are a unique record of nurses at work, the surroundings of the hospital and Florence’s room. They are one of the few first-hand records of what it was like inside Scutari Hospital and are a vital insight into the way Florence and her nurses lived and worked.

The Nurses’ Register reports that Anne was highly thought of, it comments that she would be suitable to be ‘a Superintendent if…required.’ She returned to London in 1856 and worked at Kings College hospital but caught typhus and died in 1865.

The album is in a private collection, but is currently on loan to the Museum. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the owner.