In preparing this exhibition we have used a wide range of sources. Some material is held elsewhere but most is from our collections here at Medway Archives including:
- parish registers
- local newspapers
- health reports
- books
- pamphlets
- photographs.
If you would like to know more about this subject please email us at malsc@medway.gov.uk.
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| 1. Sir John Hawkins Knight Hospital |
- VF CHA 362.6 Sir John Hawkins Knight Hospital
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| 2. Poor Law and Workhouse infirmaries |
- Odette Buchanan -The Two Gentlemen of Strood, 2011
- Betty Cole -The Treatment of the Poor in Kent (c.1750 to 1930)
- Deborah Collins - The Kent work houses website
- Will of Richard Watts1579 - Watts Charity website
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| 3. Public Health Act 1849 |
- Report to the General Board of Health in Chatham, VF: CHA 614; C050616789
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4. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
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- The Hospital of St Bartholomew Rochester - Greenwood, E J published 1962
- The History and Antiquities of Rochester - Denne, J. published 1772
- Antiquarian and Medico-Historical notes of the Rochester and Chatham Leper Hospital of St Bartholomew, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal 1851 - Stratton, T.
- Kelly’s Directory 1903 to 1904
- Journal of the British Archaeological Association Volume 11 published 1855
- Geoff Rambler’s Weird and Wonderful Kent
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| 5. Fort Pitt Hospital |
- notes on the history of the Napoleonic fort, military hospital and technical school - Cooper, John Fort Pitt
- Kent County Library, 1976
- Couchman Collection DE402/17/14
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| 6. Melville Hospital |
- Local History Leaflet No 2 - Joyce Stewart
- The Navy & Army Illustrated - 12 Nov 1898
- The Autobiography of an Octogenarian Architect - George L Taylor,1870
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| 7. Royal Naval Hospital |
- The making of Medway Maritime Hospital: a short history - Boutell, Vivien - Medway NHS Foundation, 2017
- image: GIL/HEA/HOS3A1/6
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| 8. All Saints Hospital |
- The History of Medway’s Hospitals : The Healing Arts Group for Medway NHS Trust VF MED362.9
- East Kent Gazette 22 September 1950 page 2
- East Kent Gazette 23 June 1961 p. 2
- East Kent Gazette 3 September 1964 p.1
- Evening Post 4 May 1971 p.12
- Chatham Standard 29 November 1983 p.13
- Kent Today 22 April 1994 p.1
- Medway News 9 July 1999 p.33
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| 9. George Man Burrows |
- A Statement of Circumstances connected with the Apothecaries Act and its Administration by George Man Burrows 1817 (available online via the Wellcome Collection)
- Account of two cases of death from eating mussels: with some general observations on fish-poison by George Man Burrows 1815 (available online via The Wellcome Collection)
- George Man Burrows(1771 to 1846) , general practitioner and alienist - Suzuki, A : Dictionary of National Biography
- The Times Obituary of George Burrows December 13th 1887
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| 10. Sidney Bernard |
- A Memory of the “Éclair by Surgeon Captain R W Mussen, RN (From Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service, Volume XXXVII, Summer 1951, No.3 (ref: VF MED 920/BERN/2)
- River Medway: Burntwick Island… Stangate Creek/Saltpan Reach , report by Senior Surveyor, M E Thorne 1976 (ref: VF MED 920/BERN/2)
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| 11. Florence Potter |
- Medway Archives Centre CBA/H1/1 Chatham Medical Officer of Health Reports 1896 to 1919
- Medway Archives Centre CBA/AM2/5 Chatham Borough Council minutes January to December 1902
- The Englishwoman’s review of Social and Industrial Questions 15 January 1804
- Western Daily Press 13 July 1906
- Northampton Mercury 7 February 1908
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