 ... 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...  Hospital Management - Page 66by J. L. Clifford-Smith - 1883 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1873 - 598 pages
...whenever we propose any change in the existing arrangements of the hospitals, and it is this, that it requires some self-denial on the part of both the...thoughtful men that, if any amelioration is going on m the social condition of the lower orders, the dole-giving charities — whether their doles are bread,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1873 - 628 pages
...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...decay, and of the unsatisfactory relation in which différent classes stand towards one another. Strange as it may seem to some, it is clear to all thoughtful... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 pages
...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....on in the social condition of the lower orders, the dole giving charities — whether their doles are bread, blankets, or medical advice — ought to be... | |
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