The history of Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital : from its foundation in 1752 to the present time, with an account of its objects and present state / by Thomas Ryan.

  • Ryan, Thomas.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The history of Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital : from its foundation in 1752 to the present time, with an account of its objects and present state / by Thomas Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. OBJECTS AND PRESENT STATE OF THE HOSPITAL. Objects of the Charity—Government and Administration—Privileges of Governors and Subscribers—Remarks upon Privileges—Internal arrangements—Appointment of a Chaplain and the fitting up of a Chapel in the Hospital— Vaccination of children born in the Hospital—Paying Patients—Homes in connection with the Hospital—Tabular Statement of Homes—Remarks upon some results of the establishment of Homes—Out-Patient Department- Payment by Patients according to their means—Foundation and progress of Midwiferv' Training School—Finance— Inadequacy of Income—Result to the Hospital of the establishment of the Hospital Sunday and Hospital Saturday Funds. •HE objects of the Charity are to receive into the Hospital for their confinement poor married women, widows giving birth to posthu- mous children, and deserving unmarried women with their first child; to provide married women at their own homes with a :skilful midwife to attend them in their confinements ; and to train JMedical Pupils, Pupil Midwives, and Monthly Nurses. Although not one of the objects of the Charity, it has long been customary to provide facilities for ladies requiring Wet Nurses to obtain them at the Hospital on payment of a small fee. Many ladies are accommodated with Wet Nurses in the course of the year, and the Hospital is in this way a great convenience. The affairs of the Charity are administered by a Committee of Manage- Tnent consisting of not less than twenty nor more than thirty Governors. The Committee meet once a month, and at each monthly meeting two of their number, the Visitors, are appointed, in whose hands the conduct and control of the Hospital is placed during the period between the meetings of the Com- mittee. Under them the Secretary has the direction of the civil department of the Hospital, the control of expenditure, and the preservation of order and discipline. The medical and nursing department is in the hands of the two Physicians to the in-patients, one of whom visits daily. Under the Physicians are the Resident Medical Officer, who has immediate charge of the patients, and the Matron, who, subject to the Physicians in the same manner, is responsible for the nursing.