Report of the Bovey Tracey and District Hospital : 1926.

  • Bovey Tracey and District Hospital.
Date:
1926
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Bovey Tracey and District Hospital : 1926. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bovey Tracey & District Hospital. The Hospital is Supported by Voluntary Contributions. I. Subscribers and Donors of One Guinea and upwards are entitled to one Letter of Recommendation for each Guinea. II. Terms for Admission of Patients :— (a) Accidents and emergency cases requiring im¬ mediate operation are admitted at once, pro¬ vided there is room, it being understood that patients will pay the necessary charges upon leaving the Hospital. (b) Patients admitted with a Subscriber’s Letter of Recommendation are charged from 7/6 to 15/- per week at the discretion of the Committee. (c) Private Patients are charged from £1-1-0 to £7-7-0 per week, according to circumstances; and if a Special Nurse is needed extra charge is made for her services and board. III. No Patient admitted under Paragraph (b) shall remain in the Hospital more than four weeks without a fresh Letter of Recommendation, or Special Order of the Committee. IV. All Patients are expected to conform to the Rules of the House. V. Visiting times at the Hospital are Sundays, 2—4 p.rn., Tuesdays and Fridays, 3—4 p.m., and other times by special permission ; subject in all cases to the Doctor’s approval. Ministers of all denominations are allowed to visit Patients at any reasonable hour. VI. Dr. Arnott and his assistants give their services gratuitously to all Patients admitted with a Letter of Recommendation ; but when the Hospital is used by Private Patients, in the event of accom¬ modation being available (Hospital cases having always first claim), fees are charged the same as if treatment was carried out privately.