Report of the Committee appointed May 17, 1866, to consider and report upon the proposed erection of fever wards.

  • John Radcliffe Hospital.
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[1866?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee appointed May 17, 1866, to consider and report upon the proposed erection of fever wards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and presented a Report in manuscript at the Court of May 31. At that Court it was agreed that the Report of the Committee should he printed and circulated among the Governors. The Committee herewith prefix to their detailed Report the conclusions and recommenda- tions which their enquiries have led them to adopt* referring the Governors to that Report for the facts and reasons upon which what immediately follows is based. At aMeetingof the Subscribers to the Lancashire Relief Fund, which was held last Wednesday, July 18, it was resolved to offer the surplus of that Fund, a sum amounting to about £1,000, to the Governors of the Radciiffe Infirmary, on the condition that it be applied towards the erection of Wards for the reception of cases of Fever on a system of Free Admission. As it has been clearly understood that the Free Admission system is to be supported independently of the Radciiffe Infirmary’s Funds, your Committee recommend the Governors to accept this offer. They are of opinion that the wants of the district may be adequately met, and the character of the Infirmary, as an Institution equal to the meet- ing of those wants, sustained, by the addition to its present complement of beds and wards of a couple of Fever Blocks, containing 24 beds in four wards. A very considerable part of the expense of erecting two such Blocks will be covered by this contribution from the Lancashire Relief Fund Surplus, and your Committee have no doubt that*