Inquests at the Radcliffe Infirmary.

  • Hussey, E. L. (Edward Law)
Date:
[1893]
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Credit: Inquests at the Radcliffe Infirmary. 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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    To the Chairman of the Committee. Again it is my duty to the Crown to call atten- tion to a Certificate of the death of a Patient, sent to the Registrar, without notice first sent to me. S. L. H., admitted, November 29, with extensive burns about the limbs, died on the 6th inst. Notice of the case ought to have been sent to me immediately on her death. Instead of sending such notice, a certificate of the death was sent to the Registrar, to be registered, — for the purpose of burial without enquiry. The Registrar very pro- perly refused to register the death without my per- mission. Having received satisfactory assurance that Mr. P., late House-Surgeon, was no longer at the Infirmary, I was able to dispense with the personal attendance of the acting Physician or Surgeon, which, — other- wise, — I should have required at the Inquest. From the evidence at the Inquest, it appeared that the Child was seen by one of the Surgeons of the Infirmary on Tuesday; and she was not seen afterwards by him, or by any other of the Surgeons or Physicians of the Infirmary, before her death on Saturday. I venture to submit that the Governors, and the friends of the Patients, are entitled to expect that they shall have the personal attendance and care of the Physician and Surgeon, whose names are given by the Committee, as the Officers personally undertaking that duty. 9 December 1890. To the Editor of the Oxford Review. In the Oxford Review is a letter from one of the two paid Physicians of the Radcliffe Infirmary, in which he calls attention to an Inquest lately held
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