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Barts Health Archives
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Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
![Plan of St Bartholomew's Hospital-owned property in Fore Street and Lime Kiln Dock [Limehouse], c1755 - 1762 (plan 114, SBHB/HC/46)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreicun6qexdmylh26ejrfbawmgtkof5tp7zwe6pbucsddcor4on6fz4)
![Projector screen with a slide in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript reading 'Filth and Health - Hygiene and Sanitation in the Middle Ages. Inter faeces et urinas nascimur' [The Latin is attributed to early church fathers like Augustine or Bernard of Clairvaux, and means "We are born amid faeces and urine"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreicla2uulzwvozbahmrmduyhnzocpjxifv7havwvtsycmb6e7fe2ma)
![Section of a handwritten letter in blue ink, reading 'I would like to render you a report of my health, as I think one id due about October. Well I am very pleased to say that I have survived an alarming experience during the last 3 days + nights of 'Fog'. I was totally incapable of raising my body to an upstanding position or for that matter moving a limb owing to exertion of breathing or shall I say trying to hold on to LIFE. Well it is all over now thank God. My doctor has prescribed the necessary medicine and recommends a fluid diet. But I don't want to undergo such an experience again without having some remedy...".
From correspondence between patient WA and the Lady Almoner at Frimley [TB] Sanatorium, 1942-1957 [RLHBH/AL/3/27/9]. The patient goes on to make a request for a prescription for a respiratory mask to help with future smog, and a note indicates the Lady Almoner has requested a Burney Yeo inhaler (mask) for WA from the dispensary at the Brompton Hospital.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreiajtc6c4of5rumploqa35dw6z6o53bzsbn4p7je5rlxxg54jo2wlq)
![Watercolour cartoon on front, of two silhouetted figures riding away from the hospital, which can be seen in the background, on a bicycle and motorbike, with the caption 'Hurry Up Tom in case they call us back!!". Signed FW [Fred White].
RLHPP/NOW/1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreib4f7rqp4jpwbbugcg3qrwphacjya22lxgv4e2lqnlwgdyne5w36e)
![Photograph of two female records clerks at the London Hospital, both wearing work coats; one on a ladder is retrieving or returning an x-ray from the shelf in a wallet which reads "x-ray wallet"; the other appears to be checking files against a paper list. c1970s [RLHLH/P/2/41/6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreidfdtewdznowuk6h6yrh2t3dhzisurhhexxiedapn7gn4kn2cu3si)
![Photograph of Lisbeth Hockey (Hochsinger)'s application to become a probationer nurse at the London Hospital [RLHLH/N/8/46], on display in the Moved To Care exhibition at the Royal College of Nursing Museum, London](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreidxjwl6kfcoxhx2sjn7xpvvpgd5fp2i7riru6mcusulftzvgvuu44)
![Black and white photograph showing a patient on a ward. Three men wearing three piece suits are at the head of the bed. One is performing surgery on the patient. Another is dropping anaesthetic onto a piece of fabric on the patient's face. A nurse is standing to the right of the men, holding a bowl and sponge. To her right is a carbolic spray positioned to spray over the patient.
[SBHX8/733]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreig6a7i27zmtowgo32fx2m64fyxlpxe2d25qceiivhz6gdfvkgwtqi)
