IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0047
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Arlidge, John Thomas (1822-1899)
Date(s): 1847-1849
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Arlidge | John Thomas | 1822-1899 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Thomas Arlidge was born in Chatham, Kent, in 1822. He was an apprenticed to a general practitioner in Rochdale, and then studied at Kings College London, where he graduated in 1846. Also in 1846 he was elected as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He worked as Physician at the West of London Hospital and Chelsea, Brompton and Belgravia Dispensary; Physician at the Surrey and Farringdon General Dispensary, and Resident Medical Superintendant at St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics. He published his paper On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane, with observations on the construction and organization of asylums. in 1859. Arlidge was appointed a consultant physician to the North Staffordshire Infirmary in 1862, and was the first person to look systematically at life-expectancy in the pottery industry. He made important investigations into the disease known as potter's phthisis and the effects of lead poisoning. Arlidge published Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations in 1892, which became his chief work. He was then appointed a member of the Royal Commission in 1893 on conditions of employment in the Potteries. He was elected Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1878. He died in 1899.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of John Thomas Arlidge, 1847-1849, comprising notes on dissections, anatomical and related topics, compiled while he was a student of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The provenance of the volume is unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Other volumes of work by Students of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England: See MS0033 - Falconer, John; MS0047 - Arlidge, John Thomas; MS0058 - Hulme, Edward Charles and Skinner, George Robert; MS0074 - Williams, John; MS0132 - Monckton, David Henry; MS0133 - Hallett, George Henry; MS00134 - Carter, Henry Vandyke; MS0135 - Lizars, John and Silvester, Henry Robert; MS0136 - Sylvester, John Henry.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Sources: Monk's Roll Volume IV 1826-1925; Medical Directories 1848-1849; and Stoke-on-Trent website www.thepotteries.org/people/arlidge_john.htm
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008