HECKFORD

Nathaniel ( son of Capt. N. Heckford ). b. Calcutta 24 April 1842; student London hospital 1859; M.R.C.S. 1863; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1865, L.S.A. 1867; consulting surgeon Broad st. buildings, City of London 1863; established and endowed East London hospital for children and Dispensary for women, Ratcliff Cro 28 Jany. 1868, where he was the active surgeon to his death; a good diagnoser and a brilliant operator; revived the operation of paracentesis capitis; sec. Beaumont medical soc.; author of very numerous medical papers. d. Ramsgate 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Woking. Medical Times 6 Jany. 1872 p. 25; The story of the East London hospital for children. By Mrs. N. Heckford 1887.