Maternity Home a Casualty of Health Chiefs' Shake-Up ; Exactly 30 Years Ago Today, Derby's Nightingale Maternity Home Closed Down After 75 Years Caring for the City's Mums and Babies and a Hard-Fought Battle to Save It From Closure. Jane Goddard Takes a Look at the History of the Home.

Derby Evening Telegraph › September 13, 2009

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THE front page of the Derby Telegraph on September 12, 1979, featured a lovely photograph of new-born Catherine Lister, the last baby to be born at the Nightingale Maternity Home.

Catherine was being held in the arms of nursing Sister Sylvia Hutton, while her proud mother, Jean Lister, of Mickleover, and members of the home's nursing staff looked on.

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Maternity Home a Casualty of Health Chiefs' Shake-Up ; Exactly 30 Years Ago Today, Derby's Nightingale Maternity Home Closed Down After 75 Years Caring for the City's Mums and Babies and a Hard-Fought Battle to Save It From Closure. Jane Goddard Takes a Look at the History of the Home.

The staff had said goodbye to little Catherine and her mum the previous evening before ...

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