Physician's Register

Summary of cases, classified by disease, by an unnamed doctor at an unidentifiable London hospital, 1901. The volume contains very brief tabulated entries of cases treated, arranged by disease and giving number of patient, surname, age and sex, a number which is presumably that of the ward, and a letter or letters indicating outcome: C=cured, D=died, Un=?unknown, Transf=?transferred to another ward or hospital, AOR=?admitted on another register? Entries sometimes include a brief note of other conditions found or discovered to be the problem rather than the presenting trouble. At the end are some summary lists of deaths, patients transferred to other registers and patients sent to the surgeon.

1901

1 volume Paper

Tabulated entries of cases treated, arranged by disease and giving number of patient, surname, age and sex, a number and a letter or letters indicating outcome

This volume was discovered in an office in the Wellcome Institute Library (now the library at Wellcome Collection), and transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the library at Wellcome Collection Archives and Manuscripts department) in 1984. Its provenance is not known.

The register appears to have been compiled by an unknown physician at an unnamed hospital, presumably in London as the notebook was purchased from a stationer in Long Acre. The date on the spine is 190[illegible], however a list right at the end of the book is of "Deaths 1901".

For other similar collections in the Archives and Manuscript Department see sources leaflets on Hospitals