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| Description | Contains the following entry: 'I have to report that, in the end of November, in consequence of the serious operation performed on John Mitchell, I was obliged to obtain the services of a surgical nurse from the Westminster Training Home, who remained with us for a fortnight at a charge of £1.11.6 per week . . .' (13 January 1885). [This is said to be the only extant contemporary evidence for the operation carried out at Maida Vale Hospital on 25 November 1884 by Sir Rickman Godlee to remove a tumour from a patient's brain.]
[Keywords: Matron, Maida Vale Hospital Staff, Godlee Sir Rickman John] |
| AdminHistory | In an appendix to Anthony Feiling, 'A History of Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases', 1958, page 60, the patient is described as 'Henderson . . . a native of Dumfries'. John Mitchell's death certificate is reproduced here: http://www.ozbraintumour.org/MitchellDeathCertificate.pdf and shows that he was a 25 year old farm labourer from Camberwell. |