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Williamson, Dr James Mann, (c 1849-1901), general practitioner at Ventnor, Isle of Wight


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7502-7514

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Williamson, Dr James Mann, (c 1849-1901), general practitioner at Ventnor, Isle of Wight

Date(s): 1883-1900

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 13 volumes

Name of creator(s): Williamson | James Mann | fl 1849-1901 | general practitioner

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Williamson was in general practice at Ventnor until his death at the age of 52. He was Honorary Surgeon to the Royal National Hospital for Consumption at Ventnor, and Honorary Medical Officer to the convalescent home at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, attached to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Medical case registers with numerous inserted letters and notes. MSS. 7502-7509 and 7511 form one chronological sequence, documenting cases from Williamson's general practice. 1883-1901. MS. 7510 consists chiefly of patients from Winchester and other localities in Hampshire and seems to document work for the Bonchurch convalescent home. 1895-1897. MSS. 7512-7513 consist of patients with tuberculosis and other diseases affecting the lungs, and presumably document work at the Royal National Hospital for Consumption. 1899-1900.

MS. 7514 documents child cases at the Grange convalescent home, sent from a variety of London hospitals (Evelina Hospital providing most cases; also Great Ormond Street, Belgrave, St. Bartholomew's, London and East London Hospitals). 1897-1899. Numerous papers are inserted, either bound in between numbered folios or loose: these comprise temperature charts, correspondence, cuttings, photographs and so forth.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content. Alphabetical index leaves at the start of each volume list both diseases and patients' names (these leaves have been ascribed Roman numerals), followed by numbered folios on which cases are described.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Wellcome Institute Library by the Royal College of General Practitioners, October 1997. Originally donated to the Royal College by Mrs. Betty Williamson.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Convalescent homes | Residential care homes | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Family practice | Specialties, medical | Medical sciences
General practice | Medical sciences
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Paediatrics | Medical sciences
Tuberculosis | Diseases | Pathology
Actinomycetales infections
Primary documents

Personal names
Williamson | James Mann | fl 1849-1901 | general practitioner

Corporate names
Evelina Children's Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Royal National Hospital for Consumption
St Bartholomew's Hospital

Places
Barnet | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Winchester | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London