GB 0100 KCLCA KCH/CN, KCH/CNI, KCH/PMR, KCH/RGM, KCH/RGS, KCH/RGA, KCH/RGP, KCH/IPI, KCH/RG, KH/R & LCC/R - King's College Hospital case notes, medical, surgical and post mortem registers

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GB 0100 KCLCA KCH/CN, KCH/CNI, KCH/PMR, KCH/RGM, KCH/RGS, KCH/RGA, KCH/RGP, KCH/IPI, KCH/RG, KH/R & LCC/R

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King's College Hospital case notes, medical, surgical and post mortem registers

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  • 1820-1959 (Creation)

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1470 volumes

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Biographical history

King's College Hospital case notes of patients were compiled under the names of doctors.

Archival history

The majority of case notes were transferred to the Royal College of Physicians in 1957 by King's College Hospital and transferred to King's College London in 1984. A small quantity was retained in the Hospital and rejoined the rest via the Hospital Library in 1986.
GB 0100 KCLCA KCH/CN, KCH/CNI, KCH/PMR, KCH/RGM, KCH/RGS, KCH/RGA, KCH/RGP, KCH/IPI, KCH/RG, KH/R & LCC/R 1820-1959 Series of King's College Hospital 1470 volumes King's College Hospital
King's College Hospital case notes of patients were compiled under the names of doctors.

The majority of case notes were transferred to the Royal College of Physicians in 1957 by King's College Hospital and transferred to King's College London in 1984. A small quantity was retained in the Hospital and rejoined the rest via the Hospital Library in 1986.

Transferred from the Royal College of Physicians to King's College London in 1984, and from the Hospital Library in 1986.

Case notes, (KCH/CN), of King's College Hospital (KCH), including, bound volume of case notes, 1820-1836, authorship and hospital unknown; medical and other notes, 1840-1859, of Professor Robert Bentley Todd, Physician to KCH; surgical in-patients and other notes, 1840-1878, of Professor Sir William Fergusson, Surgeon to KCH; medical and other notes, 1873-1887, of Sir George Johnson, Professor of Clinical Medicine; medical and other notes, 1860-1895, of Lionel Smith Beale, Professor of Medicine; notes, 1863-1874, of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Physician to KCH; medical and skin diseases notes, 1876-1895, of Alfred Baynard Duffin, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine; medical and other notes, 1875-1899, of Isaac Burney Yeo, Joint Professor of Medicine (with Dr Duffin); surgical and other notes, 1863-1889, of John Wood, Professor of Clinical Surgery; surgical and other notes, 1867-1888, of Henry Smith, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery; surgical and other notes, 1877-1879, 1885-1886, of Professor Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis, Surgeon, and Professor of Clinical Surgery; case notes, 1870-1874, of Dr William Overend Priestley, Professor of Midwifery, and Dr William Smoult Playfair; surgical notes, 1882-1888, of Hutchinson Royes Bell, Assistant Surgeon, and William Rose, Surgeon; case notes, 1869-1872, of Richard Partridge, Surgeon, and Professor of Anatomy; medical and other notes, 1873-1892, including notes on children, Pantia Ralli Ward notes and King's College Ward notes, of William Smoult Playfair, Professor of Obstetric Medicine and the Diseases of Women and Children, and Physician to KCH; Surgical notes, 1885-1889, of Brand (a dresser); Gynaecological notes, 1899-1906; medical notes, 1890, of Dr John Phillips, Assistant Obstetric Physician, KCH; medical notes and reports, 1885-1906, of Thomas Crawford Hayes, Professor of Obstetric Medicine and the Diseases of Women and Children; medical notes and other cases, 1886-1907, of Sir David Ferrier, Professor of Neuropathology; surgical notes and other cases, 1888-1902, of William Rose, Professor of Clinical Surgery; notes, 1890-1914, of Surgeon-Rear-Admiral Sir William Watson Cheyne, Professor of Clinical Surgery; cases, 1894-1916, of Albert Boyce Barrow, Consulting Surgeon to KCH; cases, 1895-1922, of Frederic Francis Burghard, Senior Surgeon to KCH and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery; cases, 1898-1899, of John Curnow, Professor of Clinical Medicine; cases, 1898-1918, of Albert Carless, Professor of Surgery; notes, 1900, 1911, of Sir Nestor Tirard, Physician, and Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine; notes, 1902, 1908, 1919, of Professor Norman Dalton, Senior Physician and Lecturer on Medicine; notes, 1903-1910, of Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor, Physician; Throat Department notes, 1904-1913; notes, 1907-1927, of Professor George Frederic Still, Physician for Diseases of Children; notes, 1908-1923, of Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd, Physician at KCH, and Director of Medical Studies in the Medical School; notes, 1909-1920, of Dr William Aldren Turner, Physician in charge of Neurological Cases and Lecturer in Neurology in the Medical School; cases, 1914-1927, of Arthur Edmunds, Senior Surgeon and Lecturer in Surgery; cases, 1914-1915, 1922-1927, of Thomas Percy Legg, Surgeon, KCH; cases, 1914-1927, of Sir G Lenthal Cheatle, Senior Surgeon; cases, 1920-1921, of Charles Jennings Marshall, Junior Orthopaedist and Junior Surgeon; cases, 1920-1927, from Males Orthopaedic Clinic and Females Orthopaedic Clinic, run by Charles Jennings Marshall, Harold A T Fairbank, Senior Orthopaedist, and St John Dudley Buxton, Junior Orthopaedist and Junior Surgeon; cases, 1920-1927, of John Everidge, Junior Urologist and Junior Surgeon; Urogenital and Urological cases, 1920-1927, of John Everidge and John Thomson-Walker, Senior Urologist; notes, 1920-1927, of Sir Charlton Briscoe, Senior Physician; notes, 1920-1927, of Dr Douglas Firth, Junior Physician; notes, 1921-1923, of Harold Waterlow Wiltshire, Lecturer on Morbid Anatomy and on Practical Medicine; notes, 1922-1923, of Professor Francis Whittaker Tunnicliffe, Lecturer on Therapeutics and Applied Pharmacology and on Practical Medicine; cases and observation notes, 1922-1927, of Cecil P G Wakeley, Senior Surgical Registrar and Surgical Tutor; notes, 1923, of Dr Arthur Whitfield, Professor of Dermatology; notes, 1924-1927, of C F Terence East, Junior Physician, Senior Medical Tutor, and Lecturer on Morbid Anatomy; case notes, [1925]-1958; indexes to medical case records, 1901-1926, (KCH/CNI); post mortem registers, 1860-1914, (KCH/PMR); medical registers, 1863-1899, (KCH/RGM); surgical registers, 1864-1901, (KCH/RGS); medical and surgical registrar's abstracts, 1898-1900, [1950], (KCH/RGA); register of cases referred by provincial doctors, 1906-1909, of Dr John Phillips, Professor of Obstetric Medicine, (KCH/RGP); in-patients indexes, [1929]-1939, (KCH/IPI); surgical register of operations performed, 1876-1877, (KCH/RG/1); medical register of in-patients, 1890-1892, (KCH/RG/2); register of obstetric and gynaecological cases, 1934-1938, (KH/R20), admitted under Mr William Gilliat, Obstetrical and Gynaecological Surgeon, Mr Alexander Croydon Palmer, Gynaecological and Obstetric Surgeon, and Mr J H Peel; death registers, 1936-1956, (KH/R21-24); register of child births, 1941-1945, (KH/R31); London County Council mortuary register, 1932-1936, (LCC/R1).

Case notes are arranged under name of physician.

Case notes touching on the privacy of named individuals are closed for 100 years.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
English.

Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.

King's College London Archive holds case notes of St Giles Hospital, 1946-1947, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA SGH/CN), Dulwich Hospital, 1947-1951, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA DH/CN), and Royal Herbert Hospital, 1904-1907, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA RHW/CN); various other registers (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA KH/R); correspondence concerning records, particularly case notes, kept in the Medical School Library, including a list of case notes placed in the Library by Dr Frederick F Cartwright in 1958, and an index, by condition and patient name, to the 'medical case records for 1905' (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA KHL/F3).

Selected case notes of Lord Joseph Lister were transferred to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1927.

Compiled by Annabel Dodds as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000. Apr 2000 Barrow , Albert Boyce , 1847-1939 , surgeon Beale , Lionel Smith , 1828-1906 , physician Beevor , Sir , Hugh Reeve , 1858-1939 , Knight , physician Bell , Hutchinson Royes , 1842-1886 , assistant surgeon Briscoe , Sir , John Charlton , 1874-1960 , Knight , senior physician Burghard , Frederic Francis , 1864-1947 , surgeon Buxton , St John Dudley , 1891-1981 , Brigadier , surgeon and writer , pseudonym John Harley x Harley , John Carless , Albert , 1863-1936 , surgeon Cheatle , Sir , George Lenthal , 1865-1951 , Knight , surgeon Cheyne , Sir , William Watson , 1852-1932 , Knight , Surgeon Rear Admiral Crawfurd , Sir , Raymond Henry Payne , 1865-1938 , Knight , physician Curnow , John , 1846-1902 , Professor of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Anatomy Dalton , Norman , 1857-1923 , senior physician and lecturer on medicine Documents Duffin , Alfred Baynard , 1834-1913 , Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine East , Charles Frederick Terence , 1894-[1967] , physician Edmunds , Arthur , 1874-1945 , surgeon Everidge , John , d 1955 , urologist and surgeon Fairbank , Sir , Harold Arthur Thomas , 1876-1961 , Knight , surgeon Fergusson , Sir , William , 1808-1877 , Knight , surgeon Ferrier , Sir , David , 1843-1928 , Knight , physician and neuropathologist Firth , Douglas , fl 1921-1923 , junior physician Garrod , Sir , Alfred Baring , 1848-1879 , Knight , Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics Gilliat , Sir , William , 1884-1956 , Knight , obstetrical and gynaecological surgeon Hayes , Thomas Crawford , d 1909 , physician Health services Hospitals Information sources Johnson , Sir , George , 1818-1896 , Knight , Professor of Clinical Medicine King's College Hospital LCC , London County Council x London County Council Legg , Thomas Percy , 1872-1930 , surgeon Lister , Joseph , 1827-1912 , 1st Baron Lister , surgeon x Lister , 1st Baron Marshall , Charles Jennings , 1890-1954 , junior surgeon Medical institutions Medical records Morbidity Palmer , Alexander Croydon , fl 1934-1938 , obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Partridge , Richard , 1805-1873 , Professor of Anatomy Patients Peel , Sir , John Harold , b 1904 , Knight , gynaecologist Phillips , Sir , John , 1855-1928 , Knight , Professor of Obstetric Medicine Playfair , William Smoult , 1836-1903 , Professor of Obstetric Medicine and the Diseases of Women and Children Population dynamics Priestley , Sir , William Overend , 1829-1900 , Knight , Professor of Midwifery Rose , William , 1847-1910 , surgeon Smith , Henry , 1823-1894 , Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery Social sciences Social welfare Still , George Frederic , 1868-1941 , paediatrician Tirard , Sir , Nestor Isidore Charles , 1853-1928 , Knight , physician Todd , Robert Bentley , 1809-1860 , Professor of Physiology Tunnicliffe , Francis Whittaker , d 1928 , lecturer on therapeutics and applied pharmacology and on practical medicine Turner , William Aldren , 1864-1945 , physician Wakeley , Cecil Pembrey Grey , 1892-1979 , surgeon Walker , John William , Thomson- , d 1937 , senior urologist x Thomson-Walker , John William Whitfield , Arthur , d 1947 , Professor of Dermatology Wiltshire , Harold Waterlow , 1879-1937 , lecturer on morbid anatomy and on practical medicine Wood , John , 1825-1891 , Professor of Clinical Surgery Yeo , Isaac Burney , 1835-1914 , physician Primary documents

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Transferred from the Royal College of Physicians to King's College London in 1984, and from the Hospital Library in 1986.

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Case notes, (KCH/CN), of King's College Hospital (KCH), including, bound volume of case notes, 1820-1836, authorship and hospital unknown; medical and other notes, 1840-1859, of Professor Robert Bentley Todd, Physician to KCH; surgical in-patients and other notes, 1840-1878, of Professor Sir William Fergusson, Surgeon to KCH; medical and other notes, 1873-1887, of Sir George Johnson, Professor of Clinical Medicine; medical and other notes, 1860-1895, of Lionel Smith Beale, Professor of Medicine; notes, 1863-1874, of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Physician to KCH; medical and skin diseases notes, 1876-1895, of Alfred Baynard Duffin, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine; medical and other notes, 1875-1899, of Isaac Burney Yeo, Joint Professor of Medicine (with Dr Duffin); surgical and other notes, 1863-1889, of John Wood, Professor of Clinical Surgery; surgical and other notes, 1867-1888, of Henry Smith, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery; surgical and other notes, 1877-1879, 1885-1886, of Professor Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis, Surgeon, and Professor of Clinical Surgery; case notes, 1870-1874, of Dr William Overend Priestley, Professor of Midwifery, and Dr William Smoult Playfair; surgical notes, 1882-1888, of Hutchinson Royes Bell, Assistant Surgeon, and William Rose, Surgeon; case notes, 1869-1872, of Richard Partridge, Surgeon, and Professor of Anatomy; medical and other notes, 1873-1892, including notes on children, Pantia Ralli Ward notes and King's College Ward notes, of William Smoult Playfair, Professor of Obstetric Medicine and the Diseases of Women and Children, and Physician to KCH; Surgical notes, 1885-1889, of Brand (a dresser); Gynaecological notes, 1899-1906; medical notes, 1890, of Dr John Phillips, Assistant Obstetric Physician, KCH; medical notes and reports, 1885-1906, of Thomas Crawford Hayes, Professor of Obstetric Medicine and the Diseases of Women and Children; medical notes and other cases, 1886-1907, of Sir David Ferrier, Professor of Neuropathology; surgical notes and other cases, 1888-1902, of William Rose, Professor of Clinical Surgery; notes, 1890-1914, of Surgeon-Rear-Admiral Sir William Watson Cheyne, Professor of Clinical Surgery; cases, 1894-1916, of Albert Boyce Barrow, Consulting Surgeon to KCH; cases, 1895-1922, of Frederic Francis Burghard, Senior Surgeon to KCH and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery; cases, 1898-1899, of John Curnow, Professor of Clinical Medicine; cases, 1898-1918, of Albert Carless, Professor of Surgery; notes, 1900, 1911, of Sir Nestor Tirard, Physician, and Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine; notes, 1902, 1908, 1919, of Professor Norman Dalton, Senior Physician and Lecturer on Medicine; notes, 1903-1910, of Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor, Physician; Throat Department notes, 1904-1913; notes, 1907-1927, of Professor George Frederic Still, Physician for Diseases of Children; notes, 1908-1923, of Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd, Physician at KCH, and Director of Medical Studies in the Medical School; notes, 1909-1920, of Dr William Aldren Turner, Physician in charge of Neurological Cases and Lecturer in Neurology in the Medical School; cases, 1914-1927, of Arthur Edmunds, Senior Surgeon and Lecturer in Surgery; cases, 1914-1915, 1922-1927, of Thomas Percy Legg, Surgeon, KCH; cases, 1914-1927, of Sir G Lenthal Cheatle, Senior Surgeon; cases, 1920-1921, of Charles Jennings Marshall, Junior Orthopaedist and Junior Surgeon; cases, 1920-1927, from Males Orthopaedic Clinic and Females Orthopaedic Clinic, run by Charles Jennings Marshall, Harold A T Fairbank, Senior Orthopaedist, and St John Dudley Buxton, Junior Orthopaedist and Junior Surgeon; cases, 1920-1927, of John Everidge, Junior Urologist and Junior Surgeon; Urogenital and Urological cases, 1920-1927, of John Everidge and John Thomson-Walker, Senior Urologist; notes, 1920-1927, of Sir Charlton Briscoe, Senior Physician; notes, 1920-1927, of Dr Douglas Firth, Junior Physician; notes, 1921-1923, of Harold Waterlow Wiltshire, Lecturer on Morbid Anatomy and on Practical Medicine; notes, 1922-1923, of Professor Francis Whittaker Tunnicliffe, Lecturer on Therapeutics and Applied Pharmacology and on Practical Medicine; cases and observation notes, 1922-1927, of Cecil P G Wakeley, Senior Surgical Registrar and Surgical Tutor; notes, 1923, of Dr Arthur Whitfield, Professor of Dermatology; notes, 1924-1927, of C F Terence East, Junior Physician, Senior Medical Tutor, and Lecturer on Morbid Anatomy; case notes, [1925]-1958; indexes to medical case records, 1901-1926, (KCH/CNI); post mortem registers, 1860-1914, (KCH/PMR); medical registers, 1863-1899, (KCH/RGM); surgical registers, 1864-1901, (KCH/RGS); medical and surgical registrar's abstracts, 1898-1900, [1950], (KCH/RGA); register of cases referred by provincial doctors, 1906-1909, of Dr John Phillips, Professor of Obstetric Medicine, (KCH/RGP); in-patients indexes, [1929]-1939, (KCH/IPI); surgical register of operations performed, 1876-1877, (KCH/RG/1); medical register of in-patients, 1890-1892, (KCH/RG/2); register of obstetric and gynaecological cases, 1934-1938, (KH/R20), admitted under Mr William Gilliat, Obstetrical and Gynaecological Surgeon, Mr Alexander Croydon Palmer, Gynaecological and Obstetric Surgeon, and Mr J H Peel; death registers, 1936-1956, (KH/R21-24); register of child births, 1941-1945, (KH/R31); London County Council mortuary register, 1932-1936, (LCC/R1).

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Case notes are arranged under name of physician.

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Case notes touching on the privacy of named individuals are closed for 100 years.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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English.

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King's College London Archive holds case notes of St Giles Hospital, 1946-1947, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA SGH/CN), Dulwich Hospital, 1947-1951, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA DH/CN), and Royal Herbert Hospital, 1904-1907, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA RHW/CN); various other registers (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA KH/R); correspondence concerning records, particularly case notes, kept in the Medical School Library, including a list of case notes placed in the Library by Dr Frederick F Cartwright in 1958, and an index, by condition and patient name, to the 'medical case records for 1905' (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA KHL/F3).

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Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.

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Selected case notes of Lord Joseph Lister were transferred to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1927.

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National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000.

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