Naval Hospital, Jamaica

Letter from John Watson, Surgeon-in-Charge of the Naval Hospital, Jamaica, to James Anderson MD, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, on the lack of proper accommodation for junior medical officers in Jamaica, and the resulting effect on their health. With a list of Assistant Surgeons at the Hospital, 1826-51, noting those invalidated out of service and deceased. Appended remarks compare their mortality rate with that of Officers-in-Charge.

16 November 1852

7 pp. and endorsement

Purchased from Nigel Phillips, 1991.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).