Hartfield District Nursing Association, later the Hartfield and Withyham District...

It was decided to employ a district nurse at the inaugural meeting held at Hartfield Rectory on 11 November 1895. The services of the nurse were for the poor and working classes of Hartfield; it was hoped that anyone earning over 20s a week would give an offering to the fund for the nurse's services. The Hartfield Nursing Association affiliated with the Queen's Institute of District Nurses in 1902, amalgamated with the Withyham District Nursing Association in 1937, and became the Hartfield and Groombridge District Nursing Association in February 1960. The association was dissolved in 1970, and it was decided to form a committee to administer its remaining trust funds. The committee was disbanded in 1992 and its funds handed over to a hospice covering the Tunbridge Wells area. Summary of contents AMS 6788/1 Committee minutes, 1895-1970 AMS 6788/2 Minutes of the Hartfield and District Nursing Committee, 1979-1992 AMS 6788/3 Agenda books, 1955-1970 AMS 6788/4 Constitution, c1937-1950 AMS 6788/5 Annual reports, 1934-1958 AMS 6788/6 Secretary's papers, 1924-1993 AMS 6788/7 Receipt and expenditure accounts, 1919-1972 AMS 6788/8 Other financial records, [1925]-1997 AMS 6788/9 Visitors' books, 1914-1958 AMS 6788/10 Other records, c1940-1980

<p>for minutes of the Groombridge and Ashurst Nursing Association, 1915-1939, see AMS 6426; for records of the Sussex County Nursing Association and the East Sussex Nursing Federation, see AMS 6583. For the papers of Harry White as treasurer of Hailsham Nursing Association, 1920-1948, see AMS 6160; for an annual report of the Danehill and Horsted Keynes Nursing Association, 1964/65, see AMS 6581; for papers of the Lewes District Nursing Association, 1898-1960, see ACC 5301; for a lease of Halloway Place, Hastings, to Hastings District Nursing Association, 1902, see MIL 2/15; for a history of the Brighton District Nursing Association, see ACC 8557 Annual reports of the Sussex County Nursing Association, 1925-1945, 1949 and 1951, are also held in CHC 85/1, and for 1946-1959 in C/T 18; for ESCC health department files, including correspondence with nursing associations from 1938, and a file on the ESCNA, 1968, see C/H 4; for nursing services registers and indexes, including a midwifery register of the Ashurst, Eridge and Groombridge Association, 1931-1958, see C/H 5; for a ledger for the ESCNA, 1960/61 - 1967/68 see C/T 4/52; for day-books for 1951/52 - 1955/56, see C/T 5/11, 12; for ledger sheets, 1946/47 - 1960/61, see C/T 5/17 For annual returns submitted to the Charity Commission by nursing associations, see CHC 9/13 (Brighton, Hove and Preston, 1925-1930, 1946), 25/2 (Forest Row, 1913/14, 1917/18, 1928/29), 31/1 (Hartfield (with Withyham from 1937), 1925/26 - 1952/53), 32/2 (Hastings and St Leonards, 1925/26 - 1938/39, 1940/41, 1942/43), 42/2 (Lewes, 1925/26 - 1942/43) and 64/1 (Rottingdean, 1947) For minutes of East Sussex County Council Public Health Committee, 1902-1918, see C/C11/13; for minutes of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee, 1918-1948, see C/C11/54/1-5; for minutes of the Health Committee, 1947-1952, see C/C11/78/1-3; for minutes of the Nursing Services Sub-Committee, 1948-1953, see C/C11/78/7-9; for minutes of the Nursing Services and Care Sub-Committee, 1953-1968, see C/C11/89/7-11</p>

Deposited 11 January 2005 (ACC 9126)