UNRESTRICTED VISITING IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL An Inquiry into its Effects and Nursing-staff Attitudes

The Lancet ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 277 (7188) ◽  
pp. 1220-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
R BARTON
1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 302-305
Author(s):  
A. D. M. Douglas ◽  
E. G. Oram

A strike involving nursing staff prior to the 1948 National Health Service Act was almost an unheard of event. In 1922 nurses at Saxondale, an 800 bedded mental hospital at Radcliffe-on-Trent near Nottingham, staged what was termed a “sit in strike” lasting four days for refusing to work a 66 hour week and accept a wage reduction as ordered by the employing authority.


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