Report submitted to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, upon the subject of the out pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, that have been under treatment for diseases of the eyes : also, the reports made by the medical officers of Chelsea Hospital upon the cases of those patients.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Board.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Report submitted to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, upon the subject of the out pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, that have been under treatment for diseases of the eyes : also, the reports made by the medical officers of Chelsea Hospital upon the cases of those patients. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Army Medical Board Office^ 3i d May, 1819. SIR, We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th ultimo, inclosing a note from Sir William Adams, with the Report accompanying it, detailing the Cases of all the Pensioners who have been treated in the Ophthalmic Institution, under various dis- eases of the Eye; and conveying the command of the Commander in Chief, that this statement may be compared with the minutes of the Offi- cers of this department, as well as with those of the Medical Officers of the Chelsea Hospital, who have from time to time attended at the examinations of those patients, and a Report made upon the subject for His Royal Highness's information. In obedience to His Royal Highness's com- mands we have the honour to submit the requir- ed Report ;a nd, referring to the several reports which were transmitted after those respective examinations, as likewise to the Letter we had the honour of addressing to you on the 24th of March, 1818, when it had been proposed to order all the invalids in Hospital at Chatham, to be inspected by an Assistant of Sir William A 2 ■ * ^