Annual report : 1927 / Ripon Dispensary and Cottage Hospital.

Ripon Dispensary and Cottage Hospital. no2006091855.

Date:: 1927

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1927 / Ripon Dispensary and Cottage Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Committe have to record, with deep regret, the death in the early part of the year, of their late Chairman, Mr. Oswald Hubert Wade. During the building of the New Wards, his great experience, and much of his time, were devoted to this work. The Hospital is deeply indebted to him for his labour, not only in this work, but also for that on the Committee for more than 20 years. Another loss the Hospital sustained during the year, was that of Dr. William Dixon Jefferson, the Senior Honorary Surgeon. He was elected in February, 1880, and had thus seen the Institution pass through many phases of its career. He was one of the small Committee who organized “ The Fancy F^ir ” in 1888, thus providing the fund which enabled the Old Dispensary to become a Cottage Hospital. The Committee (subject to confirmation by the Governors at the Annual Meeting) have elected in his place Mr. A. Carnegie Brown, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p. Miss Heslop still continues to give her valuable services as Matron, and is assisted by a Staff Nurse, a Night Nurse, an Hon. Masseuse, and 3 Probationers. The Committee especially thank the Honorary Surgeons, and the Hon. Consulting Surgeons ; and the Matron and the Nursing Staff for their increased work and constant attention.