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See MH 82/12
Catalogue reference: MH 82/49
Date: 1954 Sept 16-1956 Nov 15
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Folios 328-331. [Continued from MH 12/9359/] Case of Mary Preece. In her statement...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/9359/195
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- Folios 328-331. [Continued from MH 12/9359/] Case of Mary Preece. In her statement Mary Peck of Sutton in Ashfield, wife of Francis Peck Framework Knitter and daughter of Mary Preece stated that Valantine attended Mary Preece on a Wednesday. This was the same day as Mary Peck's brother got an order for Valantine from Mr Twells. After visiting Mary Preece, Valantine sent her some medicine in powder form and attended every day but one that week. Valantine did not attend again for a fortnight to three weeks. During that time Mary Peck sent Dorothy Holdhouse for some more medicine. Mr Valantine's son said he was out but that Valantine would visit Mary Preece again before he gave anymore medicine. Valantine did not call. About a week after taking the message Dorothy Holdhouse saw Valantine passing Mary Preece's house and called him in. Valantine told Mary Preece she must keep her bowels open. She asked for some medicine for that purpose but Valantine told he to get some salts and ginger, she told Valantine that she had no money. Valantine did not reply. On the 19 March 1842 Mary Peck complained to [Mr Twells], the Relieving Officer that Valantine had only been to see her mother once for a fortnight to three weeks. Twells told Peck her mother had been struck off the sick list. She applied to Twells for another order, but was told she'd had one order and that Valantine had a right to attend every day. One her trying to get Valantine to call again Peck was told that Mary Preece had been struck off the list and that she must get another order. Peck explained that Twells said that Valantine could visit everyday from the order he had and she was eventually given some medicine. That evening Mary Preece asked if she could see another doctor and Mary Peck's brother fetched John Warmby, who is what they called a quack doctor. On seeing Mary Preece, Warmby said they should send for Valantine as he thought Mary Preece had an inflammation of the bowel and pleurisy and that if she did not have a dozen leaches on she would be dead in a few hours. Valantine came and gave Mary Preece a pill and she went to sleep. Mary Preece was found dead at 9 o'clock the next morning. Mary Peck said her mother had suffered from Asthma for many years. Mary Preece did not know if John Warmby was in any trade and did not know if he was a Framework Knitter. Case of Mary Preece, statement by Lancelot Twells, Relieving Officer. Twells states that Sutton in Ashfield is in his district and he remembers giving an order early in February 1842 for Valantine to attend Mary Preece. A short time before Preece's death Twells was told by Mary Peck that she was not satisfied with Mr Valantine's attendance. Twells did not remember whether Mary Peck had asked for another order. He saw Mary Peck when she went to collect her mother's relief. Mary Preece was on out relief from 4 February 1842 until her death. Twells knows John Warmby, he is commonly called a quack doctor but he is by trade a Framework Knitter. Case of Mary Preece, Mr Valetine's Defence. On reference to his prescription book Valantine stated that Mary Preece came on his list by order from the receiving officer on 2 February 1842. Valantine attended Preece until the 14 February 1842 inclusive, when he felt that she had been restored to her usual state of health. Valantine discontinued and omitted Mary Preece from the return list according to his regular plan. In the first week of March 1842, Valantine was passing Mary Preece's house when she called him in and told him she wasn't feeling well and could not get anything but dry bread and tea without sugar. Valantine recommended Mary Preece kept her bowels free which might be done with salts and ginger. As to her chronic disease he could not relieve. Mary Preece said she could not afford to buy the salts and ginger. Valantine told her to send down to his surgery and he would furnish her. Which he did. Valantine did not see Mary Preece again until 19 March 1842. On the evening of 19 March 1842 Valantine found Mary Preece in great pain in the region of the heart, she had been suffering from this for several hours, her pulse was irregular and counted be counted. Immediately Valantine gave Mary Preece a one gram pill of opium and directed that fomentations be used directly and sent the following powder to be taken three times a day. Mary Preece had taken this on previous occasions of ill health and had found great relief, Carbonate of Soda, Tataric Acid and Carbonate of Magnesia, Ipecacuanha Powder, Sulphate of Magnesia. The fomentations were never applied nor the medicine given. Mary died in four hours. Mary Preece had been subject to disease of the heart for twenty years and recently had been greatly distressed for want of food, living on tea (without milk and sugar) and bread for the last nine months. Robert Weale noted on referring to the weekly return of Valantine, Mary Preece was stated as 'convalescing' and in the register of sickness and mortality on 20 March 1842 she is returned as 'well'. From the deposition of Mary Peck it appears that Valantine considered Mary Preece as discharged from his care between 20 February 1842 and 19 March 1842. [Continued at MH 12/9359/] Paper Number: 9651/B/1842. Poor Law Union Number 337. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
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