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Lady Superintendent Alice Cross

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Matron. Trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Appointed in 1879 to lead the nursing department at the Evelina Children's Hospital.

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Lady Superintendent Alice Cross

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Evelina Children's Hospital

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