University of Essex
Albert Sloman Library
Colchester Medical Society
Documents relating to Colchester General Hospital deposited by the Society in 2014
Annual Reports of the State of the Essex & Colchester General Hospital 1821-1840 [large
format, cover marked 1818-1839]
[Volume includes minutes from a “meeting held […] for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of converting the late Military Hospital […] into a General Infirmary for the Poor. Also the 2 nd21st Annual Reports]
Wood-mounted half-tone block image of empty hospital ward [unlabelled]
Wood-mounted annotated line block of plans for Essex County Hospital proposed extension to
Nurses Home [Ground, First and Second floors, produced by Duncan Beckett, Architects and
Surveyors, Stockwell St, Colchester]
Box labelled: John Penfold, History of Essex County Hospital, Manuscript, Publishing and
College of Pathologists includes:
 Handwritten and typed manuscripts and notes for Dr Penfold’s History of Essex County
Hospital.
 Letter from John Penfold to ‘Wyn’, dates 29.12.84 regarding press relating to Penfold’s book.
 Letter from John Penfold to the Essex County Standard regarding possible plagiarism from
Penfold’s book .
 A selection of articles written or co-written by Dr Penfold:
o 2 copies of obituary of Mr. Alec Blaxhill from the Essex County Standard, Friday
February 29 1952, written by Penfold.
o ‘Charles Boutflower F.R.C.S Surgeon in Wellington’s Army & Hon. Surgeon to the
Essex and Colchester Hospital’, by John B. Penfold. [Handwritten: History of
Medicine Spring/Summer 1976] pp12-18.
o ‘Gamgee – What or Who?’ Typed paper by Dr Penfold, including notes on the life of
Mr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee.
o ‘Blood-Cultures and Selection of Media’, by J. B. Penfold, J. Goldman and R. W.
Fairbrother, reprinted from The Lancet, Jan. 13, 1940, p. 65.
o ‘The G.P. and the Laboratory’, by J. B. Penfold, reprinted from the British Medical
Journal, July 14, 1951, vol. ii, p. 12.
o ‘The Early History of Elephantiasis of the Scrotum’ by J. B. Penfold, from Annals of
Medical History, 1937, March, Vol. 9 (New Series), No. 2, p. 125.
o ‘Elliptocytosis in Man associated with Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiesctasia’ by J.
B. Penfold and John M. Lipscomb, reprint from Quarterly Journal of Medicine, New
Series XII. No. 47. July 1943.
o ‘Bacterial Endocarditis due to Micrococci’ by J. B. Penfold, reprinted from The Journal
of Pathology and Bacteriology, Vol. LV, No. 2, pp. 183-189, 1943.
o ‘Coagulase Production by Staphylococci on a Solid Medium’, by J. B. Penfold,
reprinted from The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, Vol. LVI, No. 2, pp. 247250, 1944.
o ‘Vaccination Against Typhus Fever, by J. B. Penfold, reprinted from the British
Medical Journal, January 22, 1944, vol, I, p. 114.
o ‘Clinical Thermometers as a Possible Source of Cross-Infection in Hospital’ by J. B.
M. Green and J. B. Penfold, reprinted from The Lancet, July 19, 1947, p.89.
o ‘Gangrene Following Intra-Arterial Injection of Myanesin with a Study of Blood and
Myanesin Mixtures’ by T. A. Ogilvie, J. B. Penfold and D. R. T. Clendon, reprinted
from The Lancet, June 19, 1948, p. 947.
o ‘An Application to a Laboratory Problem of Discriminant Function Analysis Involving
More Than Two Groups’ by R. F. Jennison, J. B. Penfold and J. A. Fraser Roberts,
British Journal of Preventive & Social Medicine, (1948), 2, 139-148.
‘The Value of Diluted Antigen in the Wassermann Reaction’ by R. F. Jennison, J. B.
Penfold and J. A. Fraser Roberts, reprinted from Journal of Clinical Pathology, May,
1949, vol. 2, No. 2, p. 129.
o ‘Haemolytic Effects of Myanesin’ by D. R. T. Clendon, and J. B. Penfold, reprinted
from The Lancet, Nov. 26, 1949, p. 987.
o ‘Aneurysm of the Coronary Arteries’ by A. I. D. Prentice and J. B. Penfold, reprinted
from British Heart Journal, Volume XIV, No. 1, pages 87-90, January 1952.
o Lipoma of the Hypopharynx, by J. B. Penfold. British Medical Journal, June 14, 1952.
o Tubercle the journal of the British Tuberculosis Association, issue from November
1953.
o ‘Postoperative Changes in Water and Salt Balance’ by J. B. Penfold, Anaesthesia,
Vol. 10, No. 1, January, 1955.
o ‘Endocardial Fibrosis of Unknown Orgin’ by J. B. Penfold, reprinted from The Lancet,
March 2, 1957, pp. 456-458.
o ‘Leukaemia, Amyloidosis, and Renal Vein Thrombosis in Irradiated Ankylosing
Spondylitis’, by J. B. Penfold and R. D. S. Rhys-Lewis, reprinted from the British
Medical Journal, November 2, 1957, vol. ii, pp. 1034-1036.
o The Lancet, 10 October 1959, pp. 551-552. Articles titled ‘Intermittent Peritoneal
Lavage’ and ‘Dr. Joslin’s Ninetieth Birthday’.
o Communicable Disease Report Jun 19th 1970, pp1-2.
o ‘An outbreak of diphtheria in a hospital for the mentally subnormal’ by G. S. Anderson
and J. B. Penfold, reprinted from the Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 26, page
606, 1973.
o Clipping from On Call, December 7, 1978. @Gowers’ grid for counting cells’. 0Portrait
of Sir William Gowers.
o Clipping from On Call, December 1978. ‘Not a penny more: Dr. John Penfold’s novel
use for a surplus loo’.
o The Lancet, May 19, 1979, pp. 1091-1092. Articles titled ‘Available Oxygen in Preterm Babies’, ‘Campylobacter Urinary Infection’, ‘Meningism Associated with
Campylobacter Jejuni Enteritis’ and ‘Campylobacter Cholecystitis’.
o ‘Gastroenteritis Associated with Wild Birds in a Hospital Kitchen’ by J. B. Penfold and
Pamela J. Morely Peet, CDR 79/32, 17th August, 1979.
o ‘Gastroenteritis Associated with Wild Birds in a Hospital Kitchen’ by J. B. Penfold, H.
C. C. Amery and Pamela J. Morely Peet, British Medical Journal, 29 September
1979.
o ‘Anuria Treated by Renal Decapsulation and Peritoneal Dialysis’ by Ronal Reid, John
B. Penfold and Ronald N. Jones, reprinted from The Lancet, Nov. 23, 1946, p. 749.
o The 150th Anniversary Celebrations of the Essex County Hospital, Colchester’ by
Penfold.
o ‘Introducing Dr Röntgen’s rays- What happened at Colchester Hospital’, by Dr
Penfold, clipping from The Medical Technologist, September 1985.
‘An Account of the Penfold Collection’, by Dr. Mike Smith, Dermatologist.
8 typed pages regarding the opening of an extension to the nurses’ home, dated 14 July
1932.
Typed transcript of lecture by Dr Penfold on the occasion of the 150 th anniversary of the
opening of the hospital.
‘Speech to the Dental Society, Chelmsford, 1970s, Dr John Penfold’. Handwritten notes.
Correspondence regarding, and notes for a speech given at a ‘Twelfth Night Dinner’ entitled
“Medical Gentlemen of the Last Century”
Miscellaneous correspondence to and from Dr Penfold dating from 29th January 1979-14th
April 1985
Correspondence regarding the publication of Dr Penfold’s book dating from 5 th September
1983-24th January 1987.
Correspondence regarding a collection of historical medical equipment, donations to the
collection and exhibitions dating from 10th October 1977-18th October 1983.
Correspondence regarding the formation of a historical society of pathology and medical
laboratory sciences and the Joint Working Party for the formation of this society, dating from
29th January 1979- 9th October 1982.
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Box labelled: Essex and Colchester Hospital, Minutes 1820-1841 arranged by subject:
Administration, Building, Water, Furnishings, Grounds, Provisions
Typed extracts of minutes with annotations, partitioned by divider cards.
 Including Extracts from the Minute Books [2 November 1818 to 20 March 1823 No. 1 Volume]
of the Committee of the Essex County Hospital, Colchester
Box labelled: Essex County Hospital: Extracts of minutes December 1841 – February 1902
Minutes of the Essex and Colchester Hospital, commencing 23 December 1841 and finishing on 10
February 1902. [pages annotated by hand from 271 through to 806]
Box labelled: John Penfold: Research on Doctors
 John B Penfold’s personal diary [printed date 1982] with handwritten and copied lists of
surgeons, chemists, druggists, dentists, etc dated from 1798/99 to 1899
 Newspaper cuttings [originals and copies] referring to the Colchester Medical Society, the
Essex and Suffolk Medical Society, and news of local surgeons etc
 United Reform Church, Lion Walk, Colchester Exhumations – typed notes
 Various correspondence from/to John Penfold concerning local doctors, druggists etc, 19691989
 Extracts from Ipswich Journal, Medical Items [with notes added] dated 25 July 1747 to 25 Feb
1800, with addenda and index . Also letter [from JBP?] to Dr Clendon, dated 31 March 1964
regarding materials for the History of Medicine in Colchester in the 18th Century
 Notes on Colchester physicians, apothecaries, surgeons etc principally in Georgian times
compiled from Ipswich Journal, rate books and other sources by John Bensusan-Butt, 19631967
 Addenda to previous medical notes by J.B-B dated 10 Dec 1972
 Correspo0ndence between JB Penfold and Mrs R Shooter concerning Colchester Medical
Society and and Dr Brown, dated 3 Feb 1975 to 5 March 1975
 Society of Apothecaries Alphabetical List of Licentiates 1815-1852 (Ref. 8241B Vol 1
Guildhall Library, London), annotated by JB Penfold 1977
 Correspondence between JB Penfold and Alan J Seal concerning the latter’s grandfather Dr
George Young, dated 26 September 1979 to 15 October 1980.
 List of names titled Australia and New Zealand and extracts from Medical Journal of Australia
1938
 Various lists of names with DOB etc
 Correspondence between JB Penfold and Dr D van Zwanenberg dated 11 Dec 1983, and
handwritten notes headed ‘Information on Suffolk Doctors who were members of Colchester
Medical Society’ and ‘Ipswich Journal 1880’
 Hand typed list of Sudbury Doctors from A W Berry, Colchester, March 1988
 Correspondence from Richard Battle dated 1974
 Details from St George’s Hospital Register and Roll of the Royal College of Physicians re
Robert Bree.
 Correspondence with PJB Church of Bawtree solicitors regarding Bawtree family, dated 1975.
 Correspondence with Regimental Headquarters, Winchester regarding Surgeon Major
Edward Bawtree, dated 1975
 Correspondence with Scottish United Services Museum, Edinburgh regarding a Surgeon’s
Mate later Staff Surgeon Beattie, dated December 1974
 Correspondence and extracts from publications/records concerning various doctors who
worked at Colchester Hospital: Bautflower, Bawtree, Beattie, Bree, Chambers, Charnock,
Chichester, Clowes, Cowan, Curl, Dixon, Duncan, Elliott, Ellis, Fry, Holt, Hugh-Jones,
Mackintosh, Maclean, Mellor, Nunn, Partridge, Percival, Renny, Robins, Roth, R Smith,
Sherris, Sparrow, Tindal.
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Box labelled: John Penfold: Miscellaneous articles Reprints
 Report of the Worcester General Infirmary for the y/e 31 December 1858
 The 76th annual report of the state of the Hull General Infirmary, 1858-59
 Correspondence with Helen Thacker, FSG [record agent, London W2] regarding Thomas
Wentworth and family, and a copy of will of Jane Finet [dated 1650] and an account of
Richard Podmore due Lady Day 1750
 State of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital 1857-58
 Suffolk General Hospital 33rd annual report 1858
 49th annual report of the state of the Derbyshire General Infirmary 1857-58
 Le Minimum [annotated ‘short story by Dr John Blake Penfold’]
 Correspondence with Richard Kemp of CRGS, dated 22 April 1977 regarding ‘project on the
RECH’
 ‘Hallmark’ Essex Hall Hospital Newsletter 13 February 1985, No. 138
 Essex Hall ‘Through the ages’ [article/talk by JB Penfold?] undated
 Correspondence between Mr Paul Turnell of Middlesex and Mr CW Willsher of Essex County
Hospital, regarding a relative of Mr Turnell’s, Benjamin de Carle and Essex Hall
 Copied extracts from The Lancet: 20 Dec 1828-9, pp 354-381, Cooper v. Wakley; 24 Janaury
1829, pp530-535, Bats and Corruptionists; p561, Surgical Reform-Dinner to Mr Wakley; 21
February 1929, pp657-662, Mr B Cooper’s own report; Court of King’s Bench, Westminster,
Wednesday 29 Oct, Cooper v. Wakley; p703, Popular feeling from the late trial.
 Extracts from the History of Anaesthesia, eds RS Atkinson & TB Boulton, pp21-26, 3.1
Anaesthesia in ancient times – fact and fable by JF Nunn, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow,
Middlesex, UK; and pp69-75 +78, 4.2 Early ether anaesthesia… by Richard H Ellis, St
Batholomew’s Hospital, London, UK
 ‘The Introduction of Chloroform Anesthesia in the United States’, Akitomo Matsuki, MD and
Elemer K Zsigmond, MD, Anesthesia and Analgesia… Current researches, Vol 53, No.1, JanFeb 1974, pp148-151
 ‘Historical note: the first three days in the history of surgical anaesthesia in England’, A
Matsuki and EK Zsigmond Anaesthesia, 1973, Vol 28, pp176-178
 Correspondence between JB Penfold and Prof. Akitomo Matsuki, Hirosaki University School
of Medicine, Japan with notes concerning Dr Nunn and patient Thomas Herbert, and the first
death attributed to anaesthesia, copy of Thomas Herbert’s death certificate
 Copy of extracts from Weiss’s Illustrated Catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus,
appliances, etc, 1863
 Extracts and copies of the Essex Standard, 19 Feb, 19 March and 2 April 1847, concerning
the first reputed anaesthetic death
 Copy of article ‘Anaesthetic deaths’, James P Payne, British Journal of Hospital Medicine,
December 1983, pp411-414
 Copy of chapters from The Evolution of Medical Practice, edited by FNL Poynter, Pitman
Medical Publishing, 1961: ‘The influence of government legislation on medical practice in
Britain’, FNL Poynter, pp5-15; ’The influence of the Royal College of Physicians on the
evolution of medical practice in Great Britain’, Sir Charles Dodds and LM Payne, pp 35-46;
‘The influence of the Royal College of Surgeons of England upon the evolution of medical
practice in Britain’, Sir Zachary Cope, pp46-55; ‘The riseof obstetrics in British medical
practice and the influence of the RCOG’, HJ Malkin, pp58-63, ‘The influence of the
pharmaceutical industry on the evolution of British Medical practice’, Michael W Perrin, pp 97116; ‘The history of rural medical practice, RMS McConaghey, pp117-143
 Correspondence from John Bensusan-Butt to JB Penfold concerning a notice in the Ipswich
Journal, 19 Sept 1772 and the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1772, regarding Alexander Fordyce.
 Copy of ‘ On glaucoma and extra-chambral decompression (double sclerectomy)’, George
Young, Colchester, pp338-354, Opthalmological Society’s Transactions, Vol. XLIV, 1924
 Various pages copied from Medical practitioners in the Diocese of London, licensed under the
Act of 3 Henry VIII, c. 11: an annotated list 1529-1725, J Harvey Bloom, MA Hon FSG, and R
Rutson James, FRCS, Cambridge University Press, 1935
 ‘An Address on why Samuel Pepys discontinued his diary’, delivered at a meeting of the
Samuel Pepys Club held on 5 April, 1911, D’Arcy Power, FRCS Eng [reprinted from The
Lancet, 24 June, 1911] annotated ‘with the Author’s compliments’
 Pamphlet ‘The Astral element of the pharmaceutical symbols of the 17th century’, GB
Plowright, MD [reprinted from The Pharmaceutical Journal, 20 May, 1905]
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Pamphlet ‘Rating Assessments’, The Incorporated Association of Rating & Valuation Officers,
Revised, August 1953
Copy of ‘Licence to practise and liberty to teach medicine in the English provinces’ JA Nixon,
CMG, MD, FRCP Bristol Medico-Surgical Journal, Vol 52, 1935, p19-37 [a paper read at a
meeting of the Manchester Medical Society on 7 November 1934]
Copy of extract from Evolution of the General Practitioner, pp4-11
Copy of ‘The administration of voluntary hospitals’, Ch 3, pp3-43, To do the sick no harm, J
Woodwards
Copy of ‘Daniel Whistler and the English disease: a translation and biographical note’, GT
Smerdon, pp387-400, Journal of the History of Medicine: Autumn 1950
Copy of ‘Rules for the government of the hospital, etc’, 1782 pp211-224 [annotated: Norfolk
and Norwich Hospital, from Sir P Bade’s History of the Hospital]
A note on the Special Collections, The Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, 2008
Colchester Medical Society 1774-1974 [pamphlet to accompany exhibition held in the
Minories, Colchester, 1974]
Benjamin Bell (1749-1806) the first of the Edinburgh scientific surgeons, John Wilson, MD,
FRCPEd, reprinted from The Practitioner, June 1977 [annotated ‘With the Author’s
compliments’]
‘Some notes on the sponsoring of p[atients for hospital treatment under the voluntary system’,
Harold W Hart, Medical History, 24, pp447-460, 1980 [annotated ‘With compliments’ signed
‘HW Hart’]
‘The conveyance of patients to and from hospital, 1720-1850’, Harold W Hart, reprinted from
Medical History, 22/4, pp 397-407, 1978
Manual of nursing procedures, National Health Service, Ministry of Health. Binder containing
Procedural Memoranda for Hospitals: PM 1 & Appendix 1, PM 2, PM 3; and Manual of
Nursing Procedures: Memoranda NP 1-6 incl.
Transcript of The sixth report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council with Appendix for
1863. Published by HMSO, 1864 and ‘The evolution of the General Practitioner in England,
WJ Bishop, FLA, Librarian, Wellcome Historical Medical Library [annotated: The Practitioner,
Feb 1962, Vol 168, p171’]
Copy of The Medical Register for the year 1779, pp80-83 [Essex]
Display copy of a bill from Mr R Sterling of Colchester for attending the Rebow family at
Wivenhoe Park, 1781. [Rebow papers, in the Colchester Library]
Display copy of the entry in the membership book of the Royal Society of the nomination of
Mr Robert Sterling as a fellow of the Society in 1775. Charles Gray was Member of
Parliament for Colchester, and lived at Holly Trees. Presented by NH Robinson, Librarian,
The Royal Society, with related correspondence on reverse.
Display copy of a bill from Mr JH Lisle of Colchester for attending the Rebow family at
Wivenhoe Park, 1779-1780. [Rebow papers, in the Colchester Library]
Display copy of a bill from Mr Robins of Wivenhoe for attending the staff of Wivenhoe Park,
1775. [Rebow papers, in the Colchester Library]
Leather bound scrapbook containing cuttings from local press concerning Colchester’s
hospitals and nurses, dated from 1969 to 1974
Folder [marked 1] containing:
 2 copies of Extract from the Essex Chronicle, 20 & 27 October 1786, requesting a meeting at
the Black Boy, Chelmsford, on 30 October 1786to establish a fund for widows and orphans of
medical men
 Correspondence, minutes and notes regarding Colchester Medical Society and the Royal
Humane Society, including pamphlet entitled A short History of the Royal Humane Society to
mark its 200th anniversary, PJ Bishop, London 1974
 Copies of papers relating to the family of Robert R Newell, in the possession of the family
solicitors, with covering letter
 Various correspondence with concerning a picture of Dr Robert R Newell, Founder of
Colchester Medical Society, 1774
Folder [marked 2] containing:
 Colchester Medical Society list of members: Aug 1774 to 10 May 1910 [annotated ‘prob.
compiled by PGL. Additions & alterations by JBP?], undated typescript lists of members;
various typescript lists of members dated ‘up to date 31/1/72’, 1/1/73, Jan 1974, Dec 1975;
copy of handwritten list dated 1851-1908
 Laws of the Colchester Medical Society [‘printed 1988, transcribed for Microsoft Word 2002’]
and related correspondence
 A catalogue of the Library of the Colchester Medical Society, complied by Christina Tavani for
Dr DRT Clendon, Keep of the Archives; plus a supplement dated 1976
 Letter from William Jenner to Dr Robert Bree dated 22 July 1873
 Letter to Dr Phillips from E Jenner, Cheltenham, dated 16 Jan, 1807
 Colchester Medical Notes cont… [pages numbered 23-28] ‘Material from Dr Douglas Clendon
 Various correspondence regarding membership of the Colchester Medical Society
 Bill for books ordered by Members of Colchester Medical Society [9 August 1892]
 Confessio Fidei Christianae and notes
Folder [marked 3] containing:
 Various minutes of meetings held by Colchester Medical Society from 20 Aug 1889 to 22 July
1910 [typescript copy
 Minutes of the Colchester Medical Society from 2 April 1833 to 17 June 1856 [typescript
numbered pp1-55 and photocopy thereof]
Folder labelled– Essex County Hospital Extracts of Minutes: January 1818 – November 1841
 Extracts from Minute Books of the Committee of the Essex County Hospital, Colchester.
dated 2.11.1818 to 4.11.1841. Pages numbered 1 – 270; Sections dated 6 Jan 1842 to 1844
cut and split into sections: Admin, Provisions, Building, Water, Furnishings, Grounds,
Patients, Medical, Nursing, Other staff, Religious, Tradesmen; resolutions copied from a
paperbacked book to be found inside the 2nd Minute Book (1823-27)
Folder labelled – Essex County Hospital Extracts of Minutes: December 1841 – October 1844
 Handwritten index from Oct 1844 to June 1877 (partial).
 Essex & Colchester Hospital Minutes – from Volume No. 8, October 1844 - June 1847,
through to Minute Book No. 31 from 20 March 1899 - 13 February 1902. Pages numbered by
hand 291 - 806.
Folder labelled – Essex County Hospital 1820-1841: arranged by subject
 Patients
 Doctors
 Medical
 Nursing
 Other staff
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Religious
Folder labelled – Essex County Hospital Notes 4
 Section labelled Dentists
 10 [Matrons]
 Notes concerning Rev. Joseph Jefferson MA, FAS (1760-1821), Founder of the Hospital, and
copy of his will
 Correspondence and notes concerning various founders, trustees and doctors at the Hospital
 Alphabetical handwritten notes of apprentices [?] at hospital
Folder labelled – Medical men cuttings 5 ECH reports
 General notes, cuttings, extracts etc and correspondence concerning the Hospital and
medicine of the time