Annual report of the Royal Bath Hospital and Rawson Convalescent Home : 1930.

  • Royal Bath Hospital (Harrogate, England)
Date:
1930
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Bath Hospital and Rawson Convalescent Home : 1930. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report ol the Committee o! Management. To The Right Honourable The Earl of Harewood, K.G. D.S.O., and Subscribers of the Royal Bath Hospital and Rawson Convalescent Home, Harrogate. In presenting their 105th Annual Report for the year 1930, your Committee begs to state that the total number of patients admitted to the Hospital was 1,401, of whom 1,022 stayed for a second term. These figures show an increase respectively of 225 and 107 over the corresponding figures for 1929. To the Rawson Convalescent Home 429 cases were admitted, an increase of 28 over the figure for 1929. Of these, 330 stayed for a second term, compared with 281 in the previous year, an increase of 49. It will thus be seen that there is a total increase in the number of patients admitted of 253. PERSONAL. Your Committee records with deep and sincere regret the loss by death of two of its members, Major E. P. Cross and Mr. J. S, Cowell. It is a tragic coincidence that both of them attended meetings at the Hospital very shortly before their deaths. Though his professional and official duties prevented Major Cross from frequent attendance at the meetings of the Committee, especially of later years, he had throughout his association with the Hospital for nineteen years always shown the utmost readiness to place his advice and services at its disposal. He was the moving spirit in the presentation of his portrait to the Hon. Treasurer, which took place in 1928, and undertook the duties of Hon. Treasurer connected therewith with character¬ istic thoroughness. His loss leaves a blank which it will be difficult to fill. Mr. Cowell was elected to the Committee in 1924. During the six years he had served he had attended Meetings with the utmost regularity, and had taken a keen and close interest in all its affairs. His opinions always commanded respect by reason of their shrewdness and far-sightedness, the outcome of his business experience, and his sane counsel has been greatly missed.