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Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 2011

Surgeon-General

Charles Sibthorpe

Harriet WheelockMay 2011

Case books of Surgeon-General Charles Sibthorpe from his time in the IndianMedical Service, with a small collection of newspaper cuttings. Also a patients

register from the Grant Road Plague Hospital, Bombay.

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Surgeon-General Charles Sibthorpe

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Contents

Surgeon-General Charles Sibthorpe ............................................................ 2

Case Book - Nagode and Banda .................................................................. 3

Case Book - Banda, General Hospital Madras and Madras Eye Infirmary ... 3

Case Book - General Hospital Madras ......................................................... 3

Case Book - Madras..................................................................................... 4

Case Book - Madras..................................................................................... 4

Case Book - Madras..................................................................................... 4

Grant Road Plague Hospital, Bombay.......................................................... 5

Newspaper Cuttings ..................................................................................... 5

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CSSurgeon-General Charles Sibthorpe

Collection1873-1906

Extent: 8 items

Creator:Sibthorpe, Charles, 1847-1906

Description:Case books of Surgeon-General Charles Sibthorpe covering much of his time in theIndian Medical Service, with a small collection of newspaper cuttings by or aboutSibthorpe. Collection also contains an admissions register from the Grant RoadPlague Hospital, Bombay (now Mumbai).

Arrangement:Case books are arranged chronologically, followed by the patient register andnewspaper cuttings.

Administrative History:Charles Sibthorpe was born in Dublin in 1847, he studied medicine at the RoyalCollege of Surgeons in Ireland and at the Meath Hospital. In 1870 he joined theIndian Medical Service as Assistant-Surgeon. Following some years of official work inthe civilian and military departments, he was appointed Civil Surgeon andSuperintendent of the Goal at Banda, in the Central Provinces (Uttra Pradesh). In1875 he was transferred to Madras (now Chennai) and appointed Resident Surgeon

to the General Hospital and Professor of Pathology at the Madras Medical College.He remained at both institutions until 1890, serving successively as Professor ofOpthalmology, Anatomy and Surgery. In 1894 he was appointed Surgeon-Generalwith the Government of Madras, a post he held until 1900. In 1880 he was elected aFellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, and in 1897 a CB (Companionof the Order of the Bath).

Sibthorpe volunteered for active service with the Indian Medical Service in 1878when he served with the Peshawar Valley Field Forces in Afganistan. In 1885 hetransferred to active service again, this time in Burma, where he was staff surgeon toSir H Prendergast the officer in command of the British forces in Upper Burma.

Sibthorpe retired from the Indian Medical Service in August 1900, he returned toDublin where he lived with his sisters, until his death in 1906.

Custodial History:The collection seem to have been donated to the College by the Miss Sibthorpes,who donated several other items to the College after their brothers death.

Access Conditions:Access subject to the conditions laid out in the Heritage Centre Access Guidelines

Copying of archive material is subject to the conditions laid out in the Heritage CentreCopying Guidelines

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illustrations. Volume also contains some notes on thenineteenth century history of the hospital and a list ofdoctors who worked there. There is an index at the frontof volume by type of case.

CS/4 Case Book - Madras

Extent: c.500 pages


Description:Case book [from General Hospital Madras], each set ofcase notes contains details of patients, a clinical chart oftemperature, pulse and other test results, and notes on

history, case progression and outcome.Note: cases cover only c.50 pages.

December1879 - July1886


Extent: c.350 pages


Description:Indexed case notes for patients between 1880-1884,several with illustrations, extracts from operationsregister of 1884; giving names, age, details, operation,results, complications and remarks, further case notes1887-1888. Reverse of volume contains further casenotes from c.1878-1880. Volume also includes a coupleof draft letters by Sibthorpe.

1880-1884


Extent: 360 pages


Description:Case book of Charles Sibthorpe, with index of cases atfront. Case notes include personal details, history anddetails of treatment, several are accompanied byillustrations or clinical charts of temperature and othertests. Volume also contains loose sheets with details of a

further six cases.

1887

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CS/7 Grant Road Plague Hospital, Bombay

Extent: 66 folios

Creator:Grant Road Plague Hospital, Bombay

Description:Admissions register of the Grant Road Plague Hospital,Bombay, opened 4 March 1897. Register records name,age, sex, caste, occupation, reported date of attack, dateof admissions, date of discharge or death, duration inhospital, where from and remarks on admission.

Note: this volume is not in Sibthorpes hand

4 March1897 - 4June 1897

CS/8 Newspaper Cuttings

Extent: 5 items


Description:Small collection of newspaper cuttings by or aboutSibthorpe, contains;

- 'Some notes on the treatment of cholera and theadministration of cholera hospital' by Sibthorpe July 1880from the Indian Medical Journal- A letter to the editor of The Medical Press and Circularon the Indian Medical Service by Sibthorpe- A letter to the editor of The Lancet on the IndianMedical Service by Sibthorpe- 'On the Preservation of Bodies for Dissection' bySibthorpe, June 1883, from the Indian Medical Journal- Proof of a obituary from the Dublin Journal of MedicalScience, dated 13 May 1906.

1880-1906

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