Samaritan fund : second report, from Nov. 1, 1857, to Dec.31, 1858 / Guy's Hospital.

  • Guy's Hospital.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Samaritan fund : second report, from Nov. 1, 1857, to Dec.31, 1858 / Guy's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    REPORT, The Treasurer begs to present to the Governors and friends of the Hospital an account of his receipts and payments in respect of the Samaritan Fund, for the fourteen months from the 1st November, 1857 (the period to 'which the former Report was brought down), to the 31 st December, 1858. For the future ho proposes to issue a Report annually, at the beginning of each year, giving an account of the fund for the year preceding. In the present instance, he has the satisfaction of stating that the contributions which he has received during the in- terval to which this Report refers, have enabled him not only sensibly to increase the invested capital, (to which object he has, according to previous usage, devoted all the donations), but also considerably to augment the distribu- tion of relief;—the sum devoted to which during the last year, though still very inadequate to the necessities of the case, is threefold the amount so expended in any former year. Of this expenditure it will be seen that £ 10 10*. consists of subscriptions to the Convalescent Institution at Walton- on-Thames, and to the Sea-bathing Infirmary at Margate, entitling the Governors to send five patients to each insti- tution. In each case, however, a much larger number of