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Archeologists Find Evidence of Early Amputations In UK
According to a report by BBC News, county council archaeologists were called in after workers building the new city university campus found about 200 bone pieces in a pit at the former Worcester Royal Infirmary site.
The old hospital is being demolished to make way for a new campus.
Many of the 19th Century bones had been deliberately cut and were "evidence of amputations in their infancy", according to Simon Sworn, archaeologist and project officer.
The British Medical Research Association (BMA) was founded in the hospital in 1832 and Sworn said that the bones from dead prisoners were among those used for research after this became legal practice.
Sworn said the bones were a rare find.
"It's a very fascinating and important find and appears to show a great deal about early medical practice," he said.
Sworn said an Act of Parliament in the mid-19th Century permitted research on dead prisoners, so bones of former inmates could be among those found.
"It could be criminals or it could be poor people who could not be identified and had no family," he said.
According to Sworn, the bones were from many individuals and included arm and leg bones and fragments of skull and vertebrae.
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