Hospital ManagementK. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1883 - 196 pages |
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accounts admitted adopted afford amount annual appointed asylums Bartholomew's benefit body British Medical Association cent Charity Organisation Society classes Conference Contributing System convalescent institutions cost Court of Aldermen deficiency difficulties disease district establishment existing expenditure Government governors gratuitous Guy's Guy's Hospital Home Secretary hospital management house committee In-patients income increased inquiry interest King's College Hospital large number legacies London Fever Hospital London hospitals means medical attendance medical charities medical education medical officers medical relief medical schools medical staff ment metropolis metropolitan hospitals NELSON HARDY number of beds number of out-patients number of patients nursing obtain opinion out-patient department paper payments persons physicians pitals poor-law infirmaries present provident dispensaries question received reform regard Royal Commission sick poor Sir Charles Trevelyan special hospitals subscribers subscriptions surgeons surgical Thomas's tion treasurer union infirmaries voluntary hospitals wards weekly board whole workhouse workhouse infirmaries
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Page 175 - ... it ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country because he has deserved well of his country.
Page vii - ... over a period of some months, and in March last they brought up to Council a valuable report and memorial to Government. These were unanimously adopted, and the Home Secretary was requested to receive a deputation to urge the prayer of the memorial, which set forth that, whilst anxious to disavow the intention of adopting any recommendation in favour of compulsory Government control or management of voluntary hospitals, the memorialists were not less desirous of expressing their opinion that...
Page 183 - MP, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Memorial of the Council of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science SHOWETH : — 1.
Page 184 - Parliament) on very different systems, and some of these systems can hardly be worked consistently with the advance which has been made in medical science, and with the change of opinion which is taking place regarding the administration of medical charity. " VI. That it is desirable to make more use than is at present made, in the education of medical students, of the materials contained in the numerous hospitals and dispensaries now administered by the Poor Law Department and the Metropolitan Asylums...
Page 185 - Your memorialists therefore humbly pray that her Majesty may be pleased to issue a Royal Commission to ascertain fully the needs of the metropolis in the above respects, with a view to obtain reliable data upon which to base such reforms as may be necessary, and to make such recommendations as may appear to it desirable. " And your memorialists, &c. " (Signed) GW HASTINGS, " President of the Council. "May, 1882.
Page 66 - ... institution prosper ; and we have got into the way of thinking that the chief test of prosperity is the number of applicants for admission. Thus it is almost thought necessary to offer some explanation if the number of patients one year is smaller than it was the year before ; and an ever-increasing muster-roll is taken as a subject of congratulation. Surely, if this be so, it is allowing a mistaken charity to over-ride our patriotism — it is to congratulate ourselves upon what is in fact a...
Page 160 - The appearance of the volume is in any case very opportune, for it has approximately coincided with the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the condition of the...
Page 180 - Commission would consider if any and what alterations were necessary in the management of these splendid Poor Law infirmaries ; how far, if at all, they could be made available in a re-arrangement of the hospital accommodation of the Metropolis, and whether or not it might be desirable to appoint visiting physicians and surgeons, assisted by efficient juniors, and aided by a staff of clinical clerks, dressers, sisters, and nurses, to relieve the resident staff by undertaking the treatment of some...
Page 171 - Those present resolved to form themselves into a committee, with power to add to their number, in order to collect a fund for the benefit of Mrs. Watts and those of her children who are not of an age to provide for their own support. Dr. Atkinson consented to act as secretary, and Dr. Perkin, President of the Chemical Society, as treasurer.
Page 173 - Thus we find in our wards the pcnsionlcss discharged soldier, with aortic aneurism, the would-be thrifty mechanic with phthisis, the baker bronchitic from the result of his employment, the out-door labourer with rheumatism or pneumonia, the sequence of exposure to cold or wet, the domestic servant with uterine disease, the overworked operative with paralysis in some of its forms ; in a word, representatives of all trades and classes suffering from various diseases which have prevented them from earning...