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.

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    PRIVATE.—For Managers only'.] ROYAL INFIRMARY, EDmBURGH. The Managers of the Eoyal Infirmaky, at their sederunt of date Monday, 16th January 1865, adopted the following motion, which had been tabled by one of their number, namely :— That it be remitted to the House Committee to consider and report -whether any, and if any what reductions can be made on the expenditure of the Institution, having due regard to the welfare of the patients. The House Committee, in obedience to the above remit, had accordingly the subject of the expenditure of the Institution' under their consideration at a meeting held by them on Thursday the 19th of January 1865, -when it was resolved to request a Sub-Committee of their number to make special inquiry into the matter, and to bring up a report on the subject; the Sub-Committee to consist of the Rev. Mr Nicholson, Dr Craigie, and Thomas Russell, Esquire. Your Sub-Committee, following out their instructions, have had various meetings, and have now to report as follows :— Your Sub-Committee, for the purposes of the remit, applied for, and obtained possession of, reports of kindred Institutions elsewhere, with a view to ascertain the relative expense per patient in each ; and it was at fii'st their intention to have prepared abstracts of the expen- diture of several Infirmaries, but, on more mature consideration, it was deemed more expedient, with a view to simplify the matter, to limit the examination to one only, namely, that of Glasgow^ which, in point of the number of patients, as well as in other respects, was considered the most fit for a fair comparison with that of Edinburgh. Your Sub-Committee, accordingly, have examined minutely the details of expenditure connected with the two Institutions, and they have found, as the general result, that the expense incurred for each patient in Edinburgh is considerably in excess of that in Glascrow.