The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers and the annual report of the Inspector and Director, of the Public Hospital, for 1864, with the reply of the ordinary medical officers thereto : the letter of Alexander Fiddes ... and his correspondence with the governor, and the executive committee on the subject of his resignation and retirement from the Hospital : the letter of L.Q. Bowerbank ... in reply to Dr. Fiddes, and Dr. Fiddes' reply to same : also, the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest, held on Richard Bailey, lately an inmate of the Public Hospital.

Kingston Public Hospital (Jamaica)

Date:: 1865

Credit: The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers and the annual report of the Inspector and Director, of the Public Hospital, for 1864, with the reply of the ordinary medical officers thereto : the letter of Alexander Fiddes ... and his correspondence with the governor, and the executive committee on the subject of his resignation and retirement from the Hospital : the letter of L.Q. Bowerbank ... in reply to Dr. Fiddes, and Dr. Fiddes' reply to same : also, the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest, held on Richard Bailey, lately an inmate of the Public Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$’•ceased to submit to the operation ; he consented, but said that ho ,ould not have it done that night, but the next morning. The next , .y between two and three o’clock the deceased was placed under loroforin, an incission was made in the perinseum, and the piece the catheter was extracted ; after the operation a No. 8 catheter •3 passed into the bladder for the passing of the urine ; the urine 2:1 Passed freely ; the catheter was kept iu for about two days, after at b was taken out and no other passed till his death. Up to the .y of his death the urine passed freely. By Mr A Lyon, a Juror—The Doctor took the outer broken t ece and showed it to the deceased, yet he persisted in saying it was b iroken m him, and that Dr Anderson had passed the broken piece By Mr Wolfe, a Jiiror—John Lloyd, the night nurse, can give m ali information as to who drew out the outer broken piece it -s he (Lloyd) who informed Dr Field of the occurrence. \ the Coionei 1 he catheter that Doctor Anderson passed in 1 which was subsequently broken, was a silver one and perfectly :ind and new. I secured the catheter with the tapes after Dr Ander- a. the ward. (The witness here explained to the Jury the style in ion he secured the catheter in the deceased) The tape and catheter re all broken away. Dr A nderson ordered the deceased .to keep per- Uy quiet; he was very restless and fidgetty, and very dull and stupid, I rt v as difhcult for him to understand questions or directions. Daniel Power Trench, Esq., Inspector and Director of the Public vspital, sworn—I visited the deceased on the 8th of the present month ! m,/ep^ to some questions which I asked him, he said he felt : tei than the day I saw him. Be told me that the catheter which een introduced into him had hooked into his flesh inside : he raed having got out of his bed, but said that he tried to pull out the W i'ol^ V\wMch 14b™ken. He admitted II Hoctoi that he did not know how it got broken • lie 11 the Deotor wanted to examine him, and that he had told the Doc- to come and examine him ; that he would know best; that the :5tor when he had examined him, told him that there was a piece tbat be t?ld the Doctor it was “ so sore he must make it re- +tGl? *he not have it taken out he • Id die , that about three days afterwards he gave himself up to Doctor and allowed him to take it out. He also told me that he no pain then in his bladder ; that he had felt no pain since the 1 bllt ^hat ,h? felt very weak and had fever. He ' ed that nobody had advised him not to let the Doctor take it out <SlTa;l°n+ 7 *5 °bjected Was that lle felt very weak and sore stated that since the piece was taken out he began to feel weak ■also stated that Dr Fiddes had cut him before he left, that “ the tor had put m an instrument after the thing had broken in •” that I LU>t and went right into his bladder. He said that he saw the wh;ch put into him. (A catheter, and a so^d were II produced to deceased, but he was unable to show which was ! ^arOT^hlm hS0^rTfr Waa Prese‘ and «U the medical officer* : not l • % that ,hc 00ulcl no* toll who were there and who we hiin if „°dn'll,™ ma?,e wate]r ,freely 1 he said he did, and that m no pam then. JJe said he was unable to make his urine$

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