Hood, William Charles ♂

Education

M.D. 5.5.1846 by examination.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 30.7.1824 son of Dr. William Chamberlayn Hood, physician, Lambeth [London] and Ann [ ]. [Doctor]

Career

Studied Guy’s hospital and T.C.D. [Trinity College Dublin].

F.R.C.P.E. 1850. F.R.C.P.L. 1863.

Specialised in treatment of mental patients.

Medical superintendent Colney Hatch Asylum 1849-1852. Resident physician Bethlem hospital 1852-1864. Visitor of Chancery lunatics 1864- . [Doctor]

Publications. Knighted 1868.

Suggestions for the future provision of criminal lunatics. (London: John Churchill, 1854)

Death

Died 4.1.1870 aged 45.

Sources

• Lancet 1870 i 103
• BMJ 1870
• Al. Dubl. 409
• E. C. O’Donoghue, The story of Bethlem hospital p416
• Munk's Roll iv 136
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)