| Personal Details |
| Name: | Dr Thomas Whiteside Hime |
| Type: | Staff |
| Born in camp? |
No |
| Died in camp? |
No |
| Gender: | male |
| Race: | white |
| Occupation: | doctor |
| Notes: | BA, MD
7/1/1902, Telegram: Pte Secy, Pietermaritzburg to CSRC: Dr Hime should report himself at PmBurg.
Medical Register, 1900, p.846: Provincial: 62 Horton Rd, Bradford, Yorks; AB, MB Dub 1868; MD (stip con) 1889; LRCS Edin and LM 1868 (TC Dub, Paris, Heidelb & Munich); Ex-Roy Schol TC Dbu; President. Bradford Med Chir; Bradford and Dist Med Eth and Micros Socs; Ex-President Yorksh Assoc MOH, NW Assoc MOH, Sheffield Nat History Club, Lit and Philo Soc and Nat Sc Sect Sheffield Lit and Philo soc and late Cur of Mus; Fell Obst Soc Lond; Mem Epidem Soc Lond; Off Health Bradford and Sheffield; Lect on Midw and Diseases of Wom and Childr Sheefield School of Medicine; Surg Acc Public Hospital and Disp, and Med Off Boro Police. Author of 'Cholera: How to Prevent and Resist It' (from Germ of Prof von Pettenkofer), 1875; 'Handy Guide to the Sanitary Laws' 1883; Arts 'Offensive Businness' Stevenson and Murphy's Treatise on Hygien 1892; 'Anthrax' Fowler's Dict of Med 1891. Contrib 'Reports as Special Commissioner from Berlin on Tuberculine' Lancet 1890; Experiences in Cholera Hospitals at Hamburg' BMJ 1892; 'Animal Vaccination' Ibid, 1896. |
| Unique ID: | 1846 |
| Camp History |
| Name: | Bloemfontein RC |
| Name: | Bethulie RC |
| Date appointed (as staff): | 2/11/1901 |
| Notes: | 23/11/1901: Telegram, SRC, Bethulie to CSRC: Asking for another doctor; Dr Hime has been attending patients at his tent for the past fortnight; doubts if he will be able to travel for 3 days.
2/10/1901: Telegram, SRC, Bethulie to CSRC: Dr Hime reported for duty on 2 Nov.
9/11/1901: Hime, Bethulie to JC[!]: When I agreed last October to accept an appointment in connection with RCs, at £365 per annum, and ration, I supposed that that was the salary paid to all who held similar posts.
But on arriving here I find that the two medical men who hold similar posts receive £500, and rations, and neither of them can claim precedence of me in age, experience, or professional qualificaton. I can claim, as niether of them can, to be a university graduate, the author of standard works, formerly the MOH of two of the largest English towns, and an experienced hospital surgeon, and formerly lecturer in a medical school for 15 years.
One of my colleagues who receives £500 has been qualified 2 years.
I therefore respectfully ask that my salary may be at least placed on an equal footing with my colleagues who do the same work. I say nothing of my service to the cause of Unionism, in Bradford, well-known to its representatives. At present my work is merely that of a sort of parish doctor, visiting from 100 to 170 fresh cases daily in different tents. I would repectfully ask that work for which my experience would be more valuable, should be found for me. I never anticipated being placed in such a subordinate post as I hold.
The cause of the alarming prevalence of debility, disease and death here, is only too obvious to anyone familiar with public health. At a large reduction of expenditure the lamentable state of affairs might be quickly altered. |
| Sources |
| Title: | SRC 34 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 34 |
| Dates: | Oct-Dec 1901 |
| Notes: | A274, 2/10/1901: Telegram, SRC, Bethulie to CSRC |
| Title: | SRC 34 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 34 |
| Dates: | Oct-Dec 1901 |
| Notes: | A274, 2/10/1901: Telegram, SRC, Bethulie to CSRC |
| Title: | SRC 35 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 35 |
| Dates: | Dec 1901-Jan 1902 |
| Notes: | A537, 7/1/1902, Telegram: Pte Secy, Pietermaritzburg to CSRC |
| Title: | SRC 16 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 16 |
| Dates: | Nov-Dec 1901 |
| Notes: | RC6372, November 1901, Hime to CSRC |
| Title: | GOV 251 |
| Location: | National Archives, Pretoria |
| Reference No.: | 251 |
| Notes: | 9/11/1901: Hime, Bethulie to JC |
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