The first Weekly meeting of the Board of Addenbrooke’s was held on 7 July 1766. There were 8 people present and these are the first items listed: It was ordered that the Honorary Secretary write to the Secretaries of the Northampton and Salop hospitals to ask for an inventory of furniture of the said infirmary’s …
Month: June 2019
Triplets
I was doing some research in the inpatient case notes for someone and I came across, in the index of the volume for the year 1925, entries for four people with the same surname being admitted consecutively. Hospital records are closed for 100 years, so I have not used the family name or any other …
Radiotherapy at Addenbrooke’s
In June 1960 Addenbrooke's was designated as the Regional Centre for Radiotherapy, and plans for the first linear accelerator to be installed at Trumpington Street (the old site) were made, sadly no beds for the speciality could be provided at Hills Road until Stage 2. The story of Radiotherapy at Addenbrooke’s began in 1909. The …
John Addenbrooke MD
Tomorrow will be the 300th anniversary of the death of Dr John Addenbrooke the founder of Addenbrooke's Hospital. John Addenbrooke was born in 1680 in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, the only child of a Vicar of West Bromwich, the Revd Samuel Addenbrooke and his wife Matilda Porry. He was baptised on 13 June 1681 in the parish …
