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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Westminster Hospital Cases and Events


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0162

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Westminster Hospital Cases and Events

Date(s): 1802-1818

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Westminster Hospital was established in 1719 as an infirmary for the poor and sick, expanding in 1721 and 1735. It was named Westminster Hospital from 1760, and moved to a new site at Broad Sanctuary in 1834, where it remained until 1939. For the first hundred years, the physicians acted more as consultants, attending chiefly on Wednesdays when the admissions were made. The Resident Apothecary and his pupil had the most contact with patients. Surgical cases were generally bladder stones or bone diseases.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Westminster Hospital, 1802-1818, comprising a volume by an unknown author, containing lists of male and female patient records and observations.

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 this material is not known.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Observation | Scientific methods
Urologic diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
Westminster Hospital | London

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe