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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 2094 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Bernard Freshwater, consultant surgeon at Darlington Memorial Hospital

Covering Dates: 1949-1979

Access: Some restrictions under Data Protection. Apply to County Archivist for access.

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Catalogue Description

Bernard Bruce Freshwater (1909-1978) was born in Rhodesia to missionary parents. He worked as a General Practitioner (GP) in Darlington from 1939 to 1949.

Following the establishment of the National Health Service, he was forced to choose between general practice and surgery and chose the latter, working as a consultant surgeon at Darlington Memorial Hospital from 1949 until his retirement in 1975.

He also saw private patients and these records relate to his private practice.

As well as working at Darlington, he had regular operating sessions at Bishop Auckland Hospital and the St John of God Hospital in Scorton, North Yorkshire.

He died in Middlesbrough General Hospital in 1978.

Catalogue Contents

Bernard Freshwater, consultant surgeon at Darlington Memorial Hospital (Ref: D/X 2094)Analysis Books (Ref: D/X 2094/1/1-4)

Analysis book, recording expenditure, including individual amounts and to whom they were paid, 31 January 1950 - 25 April 1959
(1 volume)


Analysis book, recording expenditure, including individual amounts and to whom they were paid, 27 April 1959 - 29 July 1966
(1 volume)


Analysis book, recording expenditure, including individual amounts and to whom they were paid, 1 August 1966 - 31 July 1972
(1 volume)


Analysis book, recording expenditure, including individual amounts and to whom they were paid, 1 August 1972 - 13 November 1978
(1 volume)

Cash Receipt Books (Ref: D/X 2094/2/1-2)

Cash receipts, 10 January 1949 - 20 July 1971 [Does not appear to have any overlap with analysis books]
(1 volume)


Cash receipts, 23 July 1971 - 3 March 1979 [Does not appear to have any overlap with analysis books]
(1 volume)

Patients' Registers (Ref: D/X 2094/3/1-4)

Patients' register, recording Freshwater's private patients, including their names, names of their referring doctors, dates of their appointments with him and amount paid, January 1949 - December 1956 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until January 2042]
(1 volume)


Patients' register, recording Freshwater's private patients, including their names, names of their referring doctors, dates of their appointments with him and amount paid, January 1957 - December 1964 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until January 2050]
(1 volume)


Patients' register, recording Freshwater's private patients, including their names, names of their referring doctors, dates of their appointments with him and amount paid, January 1965 - December 1971 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until January 2057]
(1 volume)


Patients' register, recording Freshwater's private patients, including their names, names of their referring doctors, dates of their appointments with him and amount paid, January 1972 - September 1978 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until January 2064]
(1 volume)

Test Results,Receipts and Correspondence regarding individual patients (Ref: D/X 2094/4-7)

Pathology slip showing results of post vasectomy seminal fluids for a named patient, October 1978 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until November 2063]
(1 paper)


Receipt issued to a named patient, includes Freshwater's address, 11 October 1978 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until November 2063]
(1 paper)


Receipt issued to a named patient, with handwritten note ' very sorry to hear of your father's death', 16 November 1978 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until December 2063]
(1 paper)


Letter to Freshwater from the Scottish Amicable Society, thanking him for his report on two named patients, 31 January 1979 [Restricted access for data protection reasons until February 2064]
(1 paper)

Correspondence to Freshwater's widow (Ref: D/X 2094/8)

Letter to Freshwater's widow, enclosing and explaining a draft account in respect of her late husband's medical practice, 10 January 1979 [Draft account not present]
(2 papers)