| Description | Scrapbook contains printed Statutes and Rules for the General Hospital, dated 1831; a series of printed correspondence from Thomas Gutteridge and John Joseph Ledsam concerning allegations of corruption in the election of medical officers at the hospital, 1843-1844; Newspaper reports of the proceedings of the Court of the Queen's Bench and the Warwickshire Lent Assizes concerning Thomas Gutteridge as defendant in a libel case 1844-1845; biographies of Thomas Gutteridge and Dickinson Webster Crompton from Edgbastonia magazine 1883 and 1884; printed circular letter of invitation to laying of foundation stone of new General Hospital, 1894 and item from the Illustrated London News covering the occasion; drawings, sketches and postcards of the hospital buildings in Summer Lane and Steelhouse Lane; printed short histories of the hospital; newspaper cuttings on the General Hospital dating from the twentieth century; printed pamphlets for addresses delivered at the Birmingham School of Medicine and Dentistry 1834 and 1835; Rules of the Birmingham Provident Dispensary 1878; ephemera. |