South Yorkshire Times, April 7th, 1939.

Subscribers to the Mexborough Montagu hospital learned with the crisis week that Mr John Nutter Drake, secretary superintendent of the hospital for 3 1/2 years, was leaving to take up a similar post in London. Mr Drake tended his resignation on Friday and it was formally placed before the hospital Management Board at their monthly meeting on Wednesday. The new post to which Mr Drake is going a set of general secretary of the Willesden General Hospital, North London. The appointment was secured in the face of keen competition, Mr Drake being chosen from a shortlist of six which included three candidates from London, one from Bath and one from Bristol.

Rotary club congratulations.

Responding to a message of congratulations from the president of the Mexborough Rotary club (of which Mr Jake has been a member for some years) at their weekly luncheon on Tuesday Mr Drake said that in many respects he would be sorry to leave Mexborough where he had made many valued friends. And the Montagu hospital which he considered “one of the best little hospitals in the country”, but the opportunity which had been offered to him was an excellent one which he could not ignore.

Mr Drake was appointed secretary superintendent of the Montagu hospital in September 1935 in succession to the late Mr D.M.Wilson. He is a native of Colne, Lancashire, and began his professional career as an accountant at Bingley subsequently he took over the duties of secretary of the Bingley hospital as a part-time post and later became the first full-time secretary of the hospital after it had been considerably Enlarged following a series of extensions.