Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare Metropolitan Asylums Board Gold Medal awarded to Miss Ada R. Weston

Metropolitan Asylums Board Medal, gold (9ct?, 19.57g including riband), the reverse embossed ‘Fever Hospitals, Probationer Nurses, Examination and Work’ and engraved ‘First Prize Ada Rose Weston October 1914’, mounted as worn, extremely fine, rare £400-£500

The Metropolitan Asylums Board was established in 1867 to care for London’s poor sick following the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867, and ultimately there were 23 M.A.B. training schools for nurses, comprising one Children’s hospital; five Mental Health hospitals; seven Tuberculosis hospitals; and ten Fever hospitals. The Metropolitan Asylums Board presented medals to the best probationers from their Fever hospitals from 1914, and then from all their hospitals from various dates in the 1920s, although the exact number of medals awarded, and their distribution, varied year to year. The last medals were awarded in 1929, with the Metropolitan Asylum Board being subsumed into the London County Council the following year.

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