Report of the Brentford Dispensary, Cottage Hospital and Nurses' Home : 1927.

  • Brentford Dispensary, Cottage Hospital and Nurses' Home.
Date:
1927
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Credit: Report of the Brentford Dispensary, Cottage Hospital and Nurses' Home : 1927. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Foundation Stone of the New Hospital was Laid on Saturday, I I th June, 1 927 by Mrs. STALLABRASS -- The Chair on this occasion Was taken by Col. J. B. Stracey-Clitherow, C.B.E. The account of the Ceremony is given below, taken from the Brentford “ Independent.” Among all the many, varied, and eventful scenes recorded in the public life of the historic town of Brentford, there surely has not for some centuries past, at any rate, been one of the kind to rank in im¬ portance with that presented on Saturday last, when the Foundation Stone of the new Hospital was ceremoniously placed in position. To begin with, the assemblage was one of the largest, most noteworthy, and most representative that living memory can recall, and when the object of it all is borne in mind, it stands unique in all local annals. We do not think, sanguine as all the worthy promoters must have been as to the outcome of the day’s proceedings, viewed in all its aspects, anticipations did not attain to the realised facts. The time fixed was three o’clock, but long before that hour every available seat was occupied. It was calculated that close on 2,000 people were present, for besides the marquee (the approaches to which were gay with bunting), and the covered adjoining spaces, there were surrounding crowds who could not be accommodated, and who were most good- humouredly content to' obtain glimpses of what was transpiring. The remark passed from one to another that it looked as if “all Brentford was present.” There were 600 chairs provided, but hundreds more of spectators were there, in or without—creeds, classes, professions, and callings, together with large numbers of the gentle sex. In a phrase, the response was magnificent, and the fine weather added, seemed to set the seal on the day’s success. As appropriate to the occasion, the gathering partook to a con¬ siderable extent of a devotional character. There was a combined choir, whigh led the singing of the hymns, under the conductorship of