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cargo
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 1:50 pm: |       |
Hello all,
I'm probably going to end up registering eventually, but I thought I'd throw out a request as a non-member.
Im after photographs/images of pathology/autopsy rooms in London around the year 1888 for a personal project I am starting. I need these images so that I can reconstruct in digital 3D the rooms where autopsies took place.
I would really appreciate any help you can offer. There will probably be more requests and info sought in the near future and I will most likely have joined by then.
Thanks in advance. |
Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 164
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 9:58 pm: | |
Hi Cargo,
Try this site.
http://www.thegarret.org.uk/index.htm
Nina |
Lindsey Millar
Detective Sergeant
Username: Lindsey
Post Number: 99
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 1:27 pm: | |
Nina,
Thanks so much for posting this thread! Great site!
Have been hooked on it all morning!
Best,
Lyn |
Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 165
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 11:41 pm: | |
Hi Lyn,
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you view the 47 needles in art and artifacts? 
Nina
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d g cornelius
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 11:45 pm: | |
Inspector Thomas's site is appropriate for dissections in teaching hospitals. But keep in mind that in the 1880s autopsies of suspicious deaths often occurred in parish coroners' rooms that were essentially sheds. A good surviving example is the tiny building near St Pancras Old Church. |
Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 198
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 1:31 pm: | |
Cornelius,
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, I have just recently noticed your post.
You are correct that most of the autopsies were conducted in sheds. Whitechapel had no public mortuary and three of the victims, Tabram, Nichols, and Chapman were brought to the dead house which adjoined the workhouse on Old Montague Street. This was a shed.
Stride was brought to St. George mortuary. Eddowes was brought to the city mortuary in Golden Lane. Kelly was brought to Shoreditch mortuary which adjoined St. Leonards Church.
I believe that by posting the site I did that it would give Cargo a better view of a dissection room for his 3D project then a mere shed.
Nina |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1655
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 1:43 pm: | |
I think if you read the long winded court case I posted recently on the subject of 'Body Snatchers' you will find that there were open-house mortuaries, where autopsies were carried out in front of audiences who had paid for tickets.
It was much like theatre in the LVP. |
Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 201
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 4:40 pm: | |
Hi Ap,
I did not find your post on ‘Body Snatchers’ to be long winded at all. I found it both interesting and sad at the same time. I will be posting on that site next as I have discovered some information on the convicted.
Nina |
