Report to the managers of the Royal Infirmary, by David Bryce, architect, on the comparative capabilities of Watson's Hospital and Infirmary grounds as a site for the proposed new Royal Infirmary.

  • Bryce, David.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Report to the managers of the Royal Infirmary, by David Bryce, architect, on the comparative capabilities of Watson's Hospital and Infirmary grounds as a site for the proposed new Royal Infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    '^0'* Sub-Committee have had under their consideration' th« subject of pauper patients, and they have to submit that the charge mad^ fox them, although higher than formerly, is still too low. The • charge for maintenance and treatment of pauper patients is at present Is. 2d., per day. Now, that sum does not cover the cost iacun-ed merely for provisions and medicine, to the exclusion of other items of expenditure. Eestricted to expenditure under the two heads specified the charge should not be less than Is. 4d. a-day If the expenditure under other heads is added, namely for coals and gas salaries and wages, and incidental expenses, but not including house furnishings, repairs, &c, the charge to Parochial Boards might with justice be made 2s. per day. The charge for paupers in Glasgow Infirmary is 40s. per patient, which, with its reduced scale of expen- diture, IS at the rate of about Is. 6d. per day. These facts are laid before the Managers, and it is for them to decide what chai-ge for pauper patients should now be made. It ought to be borne in mind that Parochial Boards are enjoined by the Board of Supervision to pay to the funds of the Infii-mary an equitable sum for the expenses rr f ^.Z '° ^^^g-'^ — why thfsup porters of the Infirmary should be burdened with any part of the expense of maintaining pauper patients, whose interestsTpr ided for by a legal assessment afiecting the entire community. The fr^a of the Institution are thus, by such an arrangement, dLly burd ned The system of book-keeping in operation at the Glasgow In Wv appears to your Committee to provide an efficient check ol t^e^nt^ missions of the officials engaged in the distribution of the TorTflr the use of the patients. Your Committee have been oblLLTf nished with a sheet containing an abstract of the Zme sS^s working for one month, and to it the Managers are re e^r^d that f Z 'T '''' ^ view^raCln^J Your Sub-Committee, in the course of their inquiries h«v« h indeed i:ji:jz:^^^^'f^'-'- ^^^^ -tter, as the successfu wotnTof^ t^^^^^ tl^i« greatly depend on the dutirof .11 ^ ^'^^^