LHB1 Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Patients (bound records): operations books

Reference Code: GB239 LHB1
Title: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh: Patients (bound records): operation books
Dates of Creation of Material: 1876-1979
Level of Description: Sub-fonds
Extent and Medium of the Unit of Description: 3.5 shelf metres: bound volumes
Name of creator(s): Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; John William Struthers, fl. 1908-1939, surgeon; Walter Quarry Wood, fl.1923-1954, surgeon; William Alister D'Arcy Adamson, fl.1937-1963, surgeon; Walter Mercer, fl.1924-1957, surgeon; Keith Paterson Brown, fl.1925-1958, surgeon; James Roderick Johnston Cameron, fl.1938-1966, surgeon; Francis Evelyn Jardine, fl.1909-1947, surgeon; Sir James William Beaman Hodsdon, fl.1886-1922, surgeon; Sir Henry Wade, fl.1909-1939, surgeon; George Lyall Chiene, fl.1903-1937, surgeon; Alexander Pirie Watson, fl.1919-1943, surgeon; Clifford Donald Kennedy, fl.1933-1966, surgeon; Thomas McWalter Miller, fl.1928-1959, surgeon
Scope and Content: Eye cases 1876-1913; surgical, Wards 5/6 1939-1958; surgical, Wards 7/8 1959-1968; Mr Struthers, Mr Wood, Mr Adamson, Wards 9/10, 13/14 1922-1970; Professor Mercer, Wards 11/12 1945-1975; Mr Paterson Brown, Mr J.R. Cameron, Wards 11/12, 15/16 1953-1968; Mr Jardine, Mr Miller, Wards 15/16, 17/18 1923-1976; Mr Hodson, Mr Wade, Wards 15/16 1917-1938; Mr Chiene, Mr Pirie Watson, Mr Paterson Brown, Mr Cameron, Wards 17/18 1922-1960; Dr Spicer, Dr Edwards, Dr Kennedy, Dr McCallum, Ward 36 1943-1975; ear nose and throat, Wards 37-40 1903-1965; Orthopaedic Out-Patients Department 1952-1954; miscellaneous general surgery 1933-1979
Conditions Governing Access: Access is subject to the terms of the NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2010, the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Language/Scripts of Material: English
Archivists' Notes: Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists
Rules or Conventions: Description based on ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description International Council on Archives (2nd edition), 2000
Date(s) of Description: September 2002, updated May 2007, Aug 2009.