IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP56
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: SIMON, Sir John (1816-1904)
Date(s): [1850], 1866
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 items
Name of creator(s): Simon | Sir | John | 1816-1904 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Simon was born 10 October 1816 and educated in England and Germany. In 1833, he was became a pupil apprentice to Mr Green at St Thomas's Hospital. In 1838, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1938 and was elected a fellow in 1844. Simon was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College London, a post he held for nine years, and was Assistant Surgeon at King's College Hospital from 1840 to 1847. In 1844, he won the Astley Cooper Prize for his illustrated essay on the thymus gland. Electoed Fellow of the Royal Society, 1845.
In 1847, Simon was appointed lecturer in Pathology at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was also Surgeon from 1853-1876. He was Officer of Health to the City of London, 1848-1855; Chief Medical Officer of Health to the General Board of Health, 1855-; member of the Privy Council, 1858-1876; President, Royal College of Surgeons, 1878-1879; President, Royal Society, 1879-1880. Simon built up a state medical department for public health and developed the vaccination system, and was particularly concerned with eradicating the smallpox virus; influential in bringing about the Sanitary Act, 1866 and Public Health Act, 1875. Awarded KCB 1887 (CB 1876); In 1848 Simon married Jane O'Meara (died 1901). He retired in 1876, and died 23 July 1904.
Publications include: A Physiological Essay on the Thymus Gland (London, 1845); General Pathology, as conducive to the establishment of rational principles for the diagnosis and treatment of disease (London, 1850); Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City of London, for the year 1853-4 (London, 1854); Report on the last two Cholera-epidemics of London, as affected by the consumption of impure water (Stationery Office, London, 1856); Inflammation in T Holmes A System of Surgery, ... in treatises by various authors, vol 1 (1860); English Sanitary Institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations (Cassell & Co, London, 1890).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters to John Simon, from Joseph Henry Green, [1850]; and letter from E Headlam Greenhow (1814-1888), Apr 1866 relating to a 1849 report on cholera.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
2 items
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library to King's College London Archives in 2002.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Simon's Astley Cooper Prize Essay, (Ref: G/PP5/1), and case notes prepared under Green (Ref: TH/PP GREEN), held by King's College London.
Correspondence and papers of Sir John Simon, held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England; letters to Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1884-1896, held by Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts (reference: MSS Acland); correspondence with John Ruskin, held by the Ruskin Library; correspodence with A and J Severn, 1878-1902, held by Manchester University: John Rylands Library (reference: Eng MS 1260).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: St Thomas's Hospital Gazette, Vol 14, No 8, 1904; Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black); Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984); St Thomas's Hospital, E M McInness, Special Trustees of St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1992. Compiled by Alison Field
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2004