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Gazette article dated 10 September 1965

Gifts to Bideford Hospital

Mr C H Stanbury, Mrs L Taylor, Sister Martin, Mrs Stanbury, Mr M J Pearce, Sister Squance, Mrs Arnold, Miss E M Botting and Mrs Martin

Last year, in its first year of operation, the Health Amenities Fund, sponsored by the Exeter and Western Counties Hospital Aid Society, raised £70 in this area and this is being distributed to local hospitals in the form of gifts to meet patients' needs.

Two Parker Knoll armchairs and an electric hair drier, to the value of £20, were presented to Bideford and District Hospital at a ceremony on Friday

Miss A Faulkener has been appointed matron of Torrington Cottage Hospital

and has taken up her duties.

In the three months the hospital has been without a matron, Sister B Atchison has been in charge. She has now taken charge of the hospital’s maternity ward which re-opened last week.

Miss Faulkener, who comes to Torrington from Elgin (Morayshire) Maternity Hospital, trained at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and later worked at Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital.

Gazette article dated 14 January 1955

Retiring on March 17th after 43 of nursing,

the last 16 at Instow, is Miss E Rees, a Queen’s Nursing Sister of 10 Venn Close, Instow.

She has helped to bring well over 2,000 babies into the world, and herself legally adopted two babies, Peter, now a police constable, and Rosemary (who died at the age of 17 two years ago).

Miss Rees, originally from Yorkshire, has never been out of nursing work throughout her busy life except for a few weeks sickness. She received a long service medal at a gathering at St James’ Palace. In retirement she will live

Nurse Margaret Shute,

daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Shute, of 1 Northam Road, was awarded the silver medal at the annual prize giving at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

She received the medal from the hands of the Bishop of Exeter, Dr R C Mortimer.

Miss Shute began her nursing training at Bideford Hospital, where she also won a medal – for the best all round nurse.

Staff Nurse Shute is an Old Girl of Edgehill College.

Gazette article dated 15 May 1964

Artificial Insemination by husband

The go-ahead for the establishment of a ‘baby bank’ for the storage of sperm in North Devon has been given by the North Devon Hospital Management Committee.

Facilities for the purposes of AIH – artificial insemination by husband – will be provided initially.

Should a ‘by donor’ service become national policy then the facilities could be used for it, said hospital group secretary, Mr J C Woolley, after the meeting at which the decision was reached. An application for it to be set up had come from Mr J M McGarry, the group’s newly appointed consultant obstetrician and

Previously a dressmaker

News of the appointment of Miss Maida A C Chapple, SRN, as matron of the Rush Court Nursing Home of the Distressed Gentlefolks’ Aid Association, at Wallingford, Berks, will be received with much interest by her many friends in this district.

A further point of interest locally is that she succeeds in that appointment Miss E M Ruck, who was matron of Bideford Hospital from July 1948 until May 1953 when she went to Wallingford.

Miss Chapple, who lived in Bideford with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs George Clark, of Combe Lea, Cottingham Crescent, was

Drs Donald and Rachel Mackenzie, who are leaving Hartland where they have been jointly in practice for the past seven years, have been presented with a cheque for over £200 by patients and other friends.

Dr Donald leaves this week to take up a Government post in the British Virgin Isles and his wife will follow a littler later in the year. Handing over the cheque in the Parish Hall, Mr Alan Higgins thanked the two doctors for their services to the district. Introducing their successors, Dr and Mrs Cook, Dr Donald hoped the district would extend to them the

Unfortunate mistake says hospital

Mrs W J Gifford, of Buneham Cottage, Hartland, eagerly awaited the return of her two year old son, Andrew, from the North Devon Infirmary, Barnstaple, where he had been a patient.
When a car drew up outside the house she rushed to the door and opened it only to find the car driver and a small boy she had never seen before.
While Mrs Gifford was explaining to the driver it was not her son, a neighbour arrived to say that the hospital had telephoned that a mistake had been made.
The boy who had been

Maternity home during WW2

The existence of Bideford’s only maternity home may be threatened if the South Western Regional Hospital Board go ahead with plans to end the arrangement whereby National Health Service patients are admitted to it.

The Board, who have invited comments on their proposal before February 5th, point out that the agreement with the Grenville Nursing Home Ltd was entered into by Devon County Council in 1946 and was taken over by the Board two years later. Under it general practitioners in Bideford have the use of 10 beds at the home for obstetrics. Use of the

North Devon Infirmary

The House Committee of the North Devon Infirmary, in consequence of the serious financial position, owing to the falling off of donations and legacies, has been obliged for the present, to close one of the wards.

It is estimated that, for the financial year which ends 30th June, 1910, there will be an adverse balance of at least £500. The legacies received by the Infirmary during the present financial year have been unprecedentedly low – as a matter of fact, a sum of £15 only has been received since 1st July, 1909, and the donations up to 1st