title: Obituary.
abstract: JUNE JOLLY, who has died at the age of 87, was an influential nurse and author who helped transform the care of children in hospital. She overturned the tradition that excluded parents from their child's bedside. She also, famously, brought a baby elephant and a lion cub into St Thomas' Hospital to delight children and, as nursing officer in paediatrics at the Brook Hospital in Woolwich, London, persuaded a circus to entertain on site - dressing as a clown herself.
mesh_terms: D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000072222:Nurses, Pediatric / Q000639:trends*