Judith, born Judith Hawkins, left Merseyside aged 10 to live in Cleveland, Ohio, and later married Halle's father, Jerome, an AfricanAmerican hospital attendant she met through her job as a psychiatric nurse.
Perhaps no work has meant more to Sylvan than Adams's "The Wound-Dresser," a piece composed expressly for him and set to a passage from Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps about a hospital attendant who administers to the dying during the Civil War.
In A Mind That Found Itself (1908), Beers, who had been taken ill three years after his graduation from Yale, told of his experiences in various mental institutions and his final recovery in the home of a kindly hospital attendant. His report made America aware that basic reforms were required if adequate care was to be given to its mentally ill.
After her husband Kartar Singh died in 1972, Sarjit Kaur and her eight children were allowed stay at Hospital Bahagia in Tanjung Rambutan, where her husband had worked as a hospital attendant.