A second letter to the general court of contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; containing remarks on the proceedings at the meeting held on the 30th March, 1818. To which are annexed, the report of the committee, the reported speech of the Lord President, and the resolutions of the general meeting of the 30th March / By a contributor.

Date:
1818
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Credit: A second letter to the general court of contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; containing remarks on the proceedings at the meeting held on the 30th March, 1818. To which are annexed, the report of the committee, the reported speech of the Lord President, and the resolutions of the general meeting of the 30th March / By a contributor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of being rectified by the Managers, before the Committee was appointed, or the inquiry thought of,” would have required to have been voted with many explanations and limitations. The de¬ fects and errors that are proved to have exist¬ ed in the internal economy of the Infirmary, have been very properly reduced to three heads by your Committee.—1st, “ Those in the state of the Hospital as to cleanliness, and other circum¬ stances, in the domestic arrangement and econo¬ my of the House, immediately connected with the personal comfort of the Patients.—2dly, Those in the state of the ordinary diet, as actually ad¬ ministered, both as to its quality and its quantity; and, 3dly, Those in the general character and con¬ duct of those subordinate attendants in the House, to whose personal care arid attention, in the ab¬ sence of the Medical Officers, the patients are principally intrusted.” Now, I should be glad to be informed, which of the inattentions, defects, and errors, proved to have existed for a series of years in these three points so essential to the proper management of the Infirmary, had been actually rectified, or were in the course of being so, be¬ fore the commencement of the inquiry, instituted