Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Service Registers and Registers of Deaths and Injuries

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ADM 104

Title: Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Service Registers and Registers of Deaths and Injuries

Date(s): 1742 - 1957

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 165 files and volumes

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Name of creator(s): Navy Board, Sick and Hurt Board (Office of the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded Seamen), 1653-1806 Navy Board, Transport Board, 1794-1817 Navy Board, Victualling Board, 1683-1832 Board of Admiralty, Department of the Physician of the Navy, 1832-1835 Boar

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: These records comprise establishment books of naval hospitals, lists of officers entitled to half pay, entry books, complement lists, and service records of medical, nursing, pharmacist, and other staff, case books of the Royal Naval Hospital Bermuda, 1832 to 1883, and a history of the hospital, and wages and salary lists of persons employed in the care of prisoners of war. Also registers of reports of deaths, and of killed and wounded; and medical department general notation books.

Records of the Royal Naval Hospital Bermuda are at subseries level as follows:

ADM 104/98 case book 1832-1836

ADM 104/99 case book 1840-1844

ADM 104/100 case book 1850-1862

ADM 104/101case book 1870-1883

ADM 104/155 Bermuda epidemics, compiled by Dr W E Smart c.1861 1802-1863

ADM 104/156 History of Bermuda Hospital 1794-1878, compiled by C Harvey, surgeon, with nosological tables.

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Conditions governing access: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

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Finding aids: PRO Online Catalogue

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean

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War victims

War prisoners

Naval personnel

Maritime transport

Hospitals

Health services

Defence

Colonization

Colonial countries

Armed forces

Personal/Corporate names

Royal Naval Hospital Bermuda

Places

Bermuda