Cholera prevention in Cornwall, 1832
- Hocking, Samuel (fl.1832)
- Date:
- November 1832
- Reference:
- MS.8664
- Archives and manuscripts
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Two letters from Dr Samuel Hocking of St Ives, Cornwall, to the Government in London, dated 7 and 15 November 1832. Both letters concern measures for the prevention of cholera in Cornwall, and express Hocking's unease with the composition of the Boards of Health which had been set up to work on this.
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November 1832
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Dr Samuel Hocking was a General Practitioner in St Ives, Cornwall. He qualified in Dublin in 1830, becoming a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in the same year. The following year he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. As well as his General Practice work, Hocking served as medical officer for the Penzance Poor Law Union from c.1849-c.1856, and surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital for the port of St. Ives from c.1851-c.1853. He retired around 1856.
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- 1649