Report of the Weekly Board, respecting certain charges brought against St. George's Hospital.

  • St. George's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1825
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Credit: Report of the Weekly Board, respecting certain charges brought against St. George's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (N° II.) INQUEST ON JOHN HAMMOND*. [Copy.]_“ City and Liberty of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, to wit.—Informations of witnesses on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King, taken and acknowledged on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1825, at the house of Joseph Franklin, the Triumphant Chariot, situated in Pembroke Mews, in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the said Liberty, at an Inquisition then and there taken, on view of the body of John Hammond, then in the said Parish, in the said Liberty, lying dead. « Henry Pitman, House Surgeon of St. George's Hospital, on his oath, deposeth : The deceased was brought into the Hospital on the 15th of June last; he had a deep cut on the right knee, which he said was done by a piece of glass bottle; he was attended to—a great deal of inflammation of the thigh and knee joint ensued in about three or four days. He complained of great pain before the bandage was taken off; lotions wreie ap¬ plied, the cut was deep, and a small branch oi an artery was wounded, which I took up. He died on the 2drd instant, from the inflammation of the joint, caused by the cut. (Signed) “ HENRY PITMAN. « Samuel Ruggles, servant to Mr. Bailey, of Old Bromptorr, in the Parish of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, on his oath deposeth ; The deceased, who is twenty-one years of age, was under-gardener at my master's. Six weeks ago, come Wed- * From a Copy of the Notes of the Deputy Coroner, furnished by himself.