New Historical Medical Professionals added to the occupational records on TheGenealogist
Newly released records covering Doctors, Midwives, Opticians and medics in British India
At this time when we are all so very conscious of the work of our medical professionals in the face of the pandemic, TheGenealogist has released a set of new records for our medical ancestors who treated others in the course of their occupations in the time before the creation of the National Health Service.
St Mary Abbot’s Hospital, Kensington W8, ward 3
It would have been a very different world from today in which these men and women worked. Before 1948 and the founding of the NHS, medical professionals were in private practice. The poorer members of society depended on charity and being assessed for what financial contribution they could make to their treatment.
TheGenealogist has added to its occupational records with a fascinating release that has a medical theme. From the time from before the NHS came into being, these name rich records covering Doctors, Midwives and Opticians can be searched by name and keywords. All of these practitioners would have been working at the time when the wealthy could afford the best treatment, while the poor went to hospital with the added shame that this held as these institutions were where the poor were predominantly treated.
Use these records to:
- Add details to the lives of your medical ancestors
- Discover Doctors etc. who served in India in The Madras Medical Register 1934
- Find Medical Ancestors in The Medical Who's Who 1912
- Seek out midwives in The Midwives Roll 1905
- See optometrists names in the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians, Official Directory, 1927
This latest release expands TheGenealogist’s extensive Occupational records collection that includes actors, apprentices, clergy, crew lists, directors, flight, freemen, law, railway, sports, teachers and biographies as well as other medical registers.
You can read the article, ‘Medical ancestors from before the NHS began’, here:
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