Annual report : 1939 / Wallasey Cottage Hospital.

  • Wallasey Cottage Hospital (Wallasey, England)
Date:
1939
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1939 / Wallasey Cottage Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXCERPTS FROM THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION of the WALLASEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL. 1. The name of the Company (hereinafter called the Hospital”) is THE WALLASEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL.” 3. (2) To provide, maintain and manage a hospital or hospitals for the reception and relief of the sick and disabled poor and for the treatment of patients suffering from injuries, diseases or ailments whether medical or surgical and any suoh other accommodation as may seem expedient for the treatment, care and relief of any such patients. (3) To carry on the work of a General Hospital or Clinic for the sick and injured. (4) To provide, maintain and manage Dispensaries, Infirmaries, Convalescent and Nursing Homes and Out-patients and other Departments in connection with any such hospital as aforesaid. (13) To obtain collect and receive money and funds by way of contributions, dona¬ tions, subscriptions, legacies, grants or any other lawful method and to accept and receive gifts of property of any description (whether subject to any special trusts or not) for or towards the objects of the Hospital or any of them. EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION of the WALLASEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL. 6. Any person who shall contribute not less than one guinea annually to the funds of the Hospital by way of subscription and any person eligible under Article 30 hereof, shall be eligible if willing to become an Annual Member. Any such person whether he shall become a member or not shall have the right to attend at all annual special and general meetings of the Hospital but shall not have the right to vote at such meetings unless he shall beoome an annual member or is a person nominated as an associated member under Article 30. 7. An Annual Member shall cease to be a member at the end of the year If the annual subscription payable by him for such year and also for the last preceding year shall both be in arrear. 8. Annual subscriptions shall be treated as becoming due in advance on the 1st January in each year. 11. Annual General Meetings shall be held in the month of February in each year at such place as aforesaid. 13. Seven clear days notice at least specifying the day, place and hour of any General Meeting and of the general nature of the business to be transacted shall be sent to every member entitled to receive the same, or given by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in Wallasey and in one Liverpool daily newspaper, but the accidental omission or failure to give any such notice to or the non-receipt of any such notice by any of the mem¬ bers shall not invalidate the proceedings at any General Meeting. 21. Proper Minutes shall be kept of all proceedings. 22. The general management of the Hospital from year to year shall be entrusted to a Committee which shall consist of the executive officers mentioned in Article 29 and not more than 21 gentlemen to be composed of annual members whose subscriptions for the previous year shall have been paid. At every Annual General Meeting one-third of the said 21 gentlemen shall retire from office. 25. The Committee shall hold regular meetings at stated intervals at least quarterly and unless otherwise determined by the Hospital in General Meeting the quorum at a Meeting of the Committee shall be three. 27. The Committee may exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Hospital and are not by Statute or by these Articles expressly directed or required to be exercised or done by the Hospital in General Meeting subject never¬ theless to any statute and to any provisions of these Articles and to such regulations being not inconsistent with such provisions as may be prescribed by the Hospital in General Meeting. 29. (1) The Committee shall annually as soon as convenient after the Annual General Meeting appoint from amongst the members of the Hospital (subject only as hereinafter expressly provided). Four Honorary Executive Officers, namely :— (1) Chairman. (2) Vice-Chairman. (3) Treasurer. (4) Secretary. who shall respectively remain in office until their successors have been appointed and who shall ex-officio be members of all Committees and Sub-Committees.