Northampton Infirmary

"The joy to bless and to relieve mankind": child healthcare at Northampton General Infirmary 1744.

For more than a century before the opening of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (1852), children in England were treated and even admitted in voluntary hospitals in spite of rules prohibiting such care. The earliest English eighteenth century records, that contain the patient's age, are held in Northampton. Reviewing records from the Northampton General Infirmary (from 1903 the Northamp...

The Madras Eye Infirmary

it was transferred to Rundall's Road, Vepery. The reports submitted to the Directors were of so favourable a nature, as to induce the Court to continue to maintain the hospital, and in order that a suitable successor might be found, in the possible absence of Surgeon Richardson, Assistant-Surgeon T. M. Lane was appointed as an Assistant to Surgeon Richardson in October 1823. During the course o...

Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton [Brief] (1884)

This influential opinion by famed jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes [5], Jr. was copied by courts throughout the United States. For over sixty years, courts refused to recognize a cause of action on behalf of a child who died before or after birth as a result of injuries suffered in the womb [6] because the fetus [7] was considered legally a part of its mother and thus did not possess personhood [8]...

Blackburn Royal Infirmary

being 152 and the average number occupied daily 156.12, I would point out that your inference is quite correct. The increased number has been caused by additional beds having been fixed in the wards during most of the year. With regard to your last reference in the paragraph that the Report is without an index and that you had to read to the 18th page before you discovered the number of beds, I...

Manchester Royal Infirmary