Catalogue description Office of the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded Seamen (Sick and Hurt Board) and successors: In-letters

Letters from the Admiralty and Navy Board of the Commissioners of Sick, Wounded and Prisoners, the Physician General of the Navy and the Director General of the Medical Department, from naval commissioners abroad, medical officers, surgeons and others connected with hospitals and hospital ships; letters relating to prisoners of war, etc.

From 1832 the letters are 'recorded' or registered in numbered series. The means of reference are:

the registers in ADM 132

the indexes and digests in ADM 133