"Paul Irving" <pauljirving@ntlworld.com> wrote : >I've just been looking at the 3 institutions in Aylesbury for which >separate census >returns were made: the workhouse, prison, & hospital. The >enumerator for each was >the head of the institution: the master of the >workhouse, the governor of the prison, & >the hospitals resident surgeon. >The workhouse is recorded in clear & elegant, if >somewhat elaborate, >script. The prison in a more workmanlike, but still pretty good, >hand. The >hospital is an illegible scrawl. So doctors always wrote like that, not only in recent times :-) John B Leic., Eng

In message <008401c541c7$8f167c40$78058351@Jellicoe>, John Brown <john.dehavilland@btinternet.com> writes > "Paul Irving" <pauljirving@ntlworld.com> wrote : > > >>I've just been looking at the 3 institutions in Aylesbury for which >>separate census >returns were made: the workhouse, prison, & hospital. The >>enumerator for each was >the head of the institution: the master of the >>workhouse, the governor of the prison, & >the hospitals resident surgeon. >>The workhouse is recorded in clear & elegant, if >somewhat elaborate, >>script. The prison in a more workmanlike, but still pretty good, >hand. The >>hospital is an illegible scrawl. > >So doctors always wrote like that, not only in recent times :-) I have a couple of pages of early C19 medical accounts re the local prison, which are, shall we say, a challenge. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society