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Papers of Sir John Hall

Principal Medical Officer in the Crimea

Correspondence

Letterbook containing Hall's letters during the Crimean War and, afterwards, about the medical aspects of the war, including re provision of evidence for the Crimea Commission. Volume 1

Letterbook containing Hall's letters during the Crimean War and, afterwards, about the medical aspects of the war, including re provision of evidence for the Crimea Commission. Volume 2

Letterbooks containing Hall's letters during the Crimean War and, afterwards, about the medical aspects of the war, including re provision of evidence for the Crimea Commission. Volume 3

Index to letterbooks, by subject. Volume 4

Letters to Hall from Army and Ordnance Medical Departments, including letters from Dr. Andrew Smith, the DGAMS

Correspondence with the War Office, including re allegations of refusal by a dispenser to supply medicine, Jan-Feb 1855, and re pay

Correspondence with the War Office re recommendations for medals

Correspondence with the War Office re claims for compensation for transport of horses, under War Department Circular No. 1239

Correspondence with the Commander in Chief and his staff re medical arrangements for the war; care of Russian casualties; supplies; transport; Board of Inquiry to investigate soldiers' diet; expeditions to Kertch, May 1855, and to Kinburn, Oct 1855; and provision for nurses

Correspondence with the Purveyor's Department re stores; a Commission of Inquiry; the diet of the female nurses; a dispute with Florence Nightingale over the nurses' occupation of huts allotted to the Purveyor's Department; and the arrest of David Fitzgerald

Correspondence re ambulance conveyance

Correspondence re female nurses, including replies to confidential circular on nursing establishments

Correspondence re hospital ships, their stores and equipment

Replies from Divisional and Regimental Surgeons to Hall's memoranda

Cuttings from <i>The Times</i>, drafts and copies of letters to <i>The Times</i>, and correspondence of Hall and his wife re the Sebastopol Committee's censure of Hall's report on the state of the hospitals at Scutari in October 1854, and the death of Mr. Stowe

Letters to Hall re his pamphlet "Observations on the report of the Sanitary Commissioners in the Crimea during the years 1855-1856"

Letters from Deputy Inspector General T. Alexander, reporting on the medical situation (in the Light Division) and making recommendations re diet, equipment, etc.

Reports from Staff Surgeon Anderson at the General Hospital, Balaklava

Requests from Sir William Codrington, the Commander in Chief, for information re hospitals and hospital ships

Reports from Inspector General Alexander Cumming, Principal Medical Officer at Scutari Hospital

Letters from Deputy Inspector General David Dumbreck re the misrepresentation of his evidence to the Parliamentary Committee investigating the Crimea hospitals, and re equipment for hospitals

Reports from Deputy Inspector General John Forrest at Scutari

Reports from Staff Surgeon Henry Hadley, Principal Medical Officer at Balaklava, including two letters from Jane Stewart, Superintendent of the nurses at the Castle Hospital, Balaklava, re responsibility for patients' diets

Correspondence with Sidney Herbert, M.P. (later Lord Herbert) re Florence Nightingale's evidence to the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Regulations affecting the Sanitary Conditions of the Army re the management of the Balaklava General Hospital

Reports from Deputy Inspector General Robert Lawson at Scutari Hospital

Reports from Deputy Inspector General William Linton, Principal Medical Officer at Scutari

Letters from Sir James McGrigor, the former D.G.A.M.S., mainly re a memorial to Assistant Surgeon James Thomson of the 44th Foot, who died 5 Oct 1854 after nursing hundreds of Russian prisoners from the Battle of Alma

Letters from Dr. John McLennan on returning to England from the Crimea

Reports from Deputy Inspector General Duncan Menzies at the General Hospital, Scutari

Reports from Colonel Storks, commanding the Convalescent Station at Smyrna, later Brigadier General and Commandant of Scutari Hospitals

Letters from Surgeon Thomas Longmore of the 19th Regiment to Staff Surgeon T. Alexander, in medical charge of the Light Division, reporting the inadequate diet, excessive duties and poor quality of accommodation and equipment of the men of the 19th Regiment in the Crimea

Miscellaneous correspondence etc.

Miscellaneous correspondence, etc.

Miscellaneous correspondence

Hall's application for a good service pension, with record of his service, and testimonials

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