THIS ceremony, taking place in the Keighley Nurses’ Home in September, 1945, was the first distribution of prizes under the Dr J Nicholson Dobie Memorial Nurses’ Prize Fund.
James Phillips, honorary consulting surgeon to the Bradford Royal Infirmary, is presenting medals and books to nurses Annie Mitchell, Kathleen Ayrton, Dorothy Ward, Clarissa Maureen Warren, Mary Hare and Margaret Theresa McCargo.
Dr Dobie, who had died in 1940, was described as “one of the pioneers in surgery at Victoria Hospital”. Acknowledged as one of the best surgeons in the north of England – he could remove an appendix with the least possible cut – he took an interest in the welfare of nursing staff.
It was appropriate that the fund in his memory should encourage them to qualify more highly in their profession.
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