Annual report of the Ilkley Coronation Cottage Hospital : 1946.

  • Ilkley Coronation Cottage Hospital.
Date:
1946
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Ilkley Coronation Cottage Hospital : 1946. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Urban District of Ilkley or in the Parish of Addingham, may attend patients in the private wards. 30. In cases of difficulty or inability to pay any charges made to patients in public or private wards applications for special consideration may be made to the General Committee through the Hon. Treasurer. 31. The following cases are inadmissible:— Cases of Mental disorder, including Epilepsy. Infectious cases. Incurable or Chronic cases. Ordinary Maternity cases. Children, except in special cases. 32. No patients shall leave the Hospital without the permission of the Physician or Surgeon under whose care they may have been placed, nor enter any ward but their own without leave. 33. Patients who offend against any of the Rules of the House, or behave themselves irregularly or indecently, shall be expelled by the order of the Hon. Medical Officer on duty with the consent of the Chairman of the Management Committee or his Deputy, and no person after expulsion shall be re-admitted. 34. Any patient may, upon request to the Matron, be visited by a Clergyman, or Minister of any Denomination. 35. The relatives and friends of the patients shall be permitted to visit them at such times, and subject to such regulations, as the General Committee may from time to time determine. 36. Visitors and friends of patients are forbidden to bring any articles of food or drink, unless by special leave, in which case they shall be given in the first instance to the Matron, for the patient’s use. 37. The foregoing rules shall not be altered, nor shall any New Rule be adopted, except at the Annual General Meeting, or at a Special General Meeting, duly convened according to Rule 8. A copy of any alterations already proposed shall accom¬ pany the notice convening the meeting. Any amendment to such proposed alterations or any other resolutions to be proposed must be sent in writing to the Hon. Secretary at least five days prior to the meeting. This Rule shall not prejudice the right of the Meeting to amend any resolution of which formal notice has been given.