| Description | This section contains the minute books of the Board of Governors of the Westmoreland Lock Hospital. On its establishment the board was constituted of the Presidents of the colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, the Physician and Surgeon-General, the State Physician and Surgeon, Surgeon to the King's Military Infirmary, the Professor of Surgery in the College of Surgeons and the two senior Surgeons of the hospital. The Governors meet once a month and were responsible for the general and medical management of the hospital, as well as the accounts.
Note: this is not a complete series of minutes, no minutes exist for the periods 1806-1811, 1838-1881, 1899-1902 and after 1909. |