| AdminHistory | The first two volumes in the series (H/C/4/1-2) were kept by the surgeon, Samuel Byles, who practised in the Hackney Road. They record his visits to the Hospital, with some details of inmates' ailments - mostly geriatric - and treatment. Mr Byles died in 1856, and no reports are extant from his two successors, each of whom only held the post for a few years. They are resumed in a series of more formal volumes from May 1871 by Mr James C Byles, but he was taken seriously ill (as reported in detail by his deputy on 1 November 1873) and died in June 1874. The reports continue without break from then for 84 years, until the Hospital's move from Horsham to Rochester. From 1880 to 1917 the Medical Officer was Dr A C Tunstall. |