NRS-17698 | Eye Operation Register

This series records cases of eye surgery carried out at Royal Newcastle Hospital. The information recorded includes the date of the operation, the name and age of the patient, the patient’s diagnosis, the name of the surgeon, the anaesthetic employed and the procedure carried out (this last being entered in the column originally headed “Remarks”). Entries are numbered, and the numbering normally commences anew at the beginning of each year.The series was commenced at the beginning of 1921; previously, all operations of every kind were recorded in the Hospital’s Operation Registers (NRS 17700). Both these series, and also the Ear, Nose and Throat Operation Registers (NRS 17699), appear to conclude within two days of one another at the end of March/ beginning of April, 1949, which may point to a broader change in the Hospital’s record-keeping arrangements at that time.The three volumes of which this series consists display signs of wear, and the two earlier volumes, of quarter-bound ledger type, are much weakened at the spine. The third and final volume is of the “expanding” type, with inserted pages between rigid covers with metal fittings.