Annual report and balance sheet : 1926-27 / Caernarvon Cottage Hospital.

  • Caernarvon Cottage Hospital (Caernarvon, Wales)
Date:
1927
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report and balance sheet : 1926-27 / Caernarvon Cottage Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and for each additional Guinea shall have the power to nominate one Patient for a period of 14 days, upon payment by such Patient or his guarantor of the weekly fees, which may from time to time be fixed by the Executive Com¬ mittee, in accordance with Rule X. X. Except as provided for in Rule XIV., Patients shall only be admitted to the Hospital upon production of a nomination paper properly filled in, and upon payment of the sum of 12/6 per week, payable in advance from the dat^ of their admission to the Hospital, until the date of their discharge, an^ failing another nomination paper at the end of the first 14 days, and eveiy subsequent 14 days each Patient shall pay a weekly fee of £1 5s. Od., payable in advance, provided that the Executive Committee shall have power at their discretion to increase the said weekly fees, and also in special cases to remit or reduce the same. Mo Patient shall be readmitted to the Hospital under a period of three months, and applicants for admission may be called upon to produce a certificate from the Relieving Officer that they are not in receipt of parish relief. Private Patients shall pay a weekly fee of Five Guineas, and also the cost of any extra nurse or nurses, who may have to be engaged in consequence of such Private Patients being in the Hospital. No Patient in the Public Wards shall in any case be charged professional fees, save in most exceptional cases, and with the express consent of the Committee. XI. ■ No person shall take part in the proceedings of the Hospital, nor be entitled to any privileges as a Subscriber, unless his subscription for the current year has been paid. XII. Every Clergyman or Nonconformist Minister, who shall transmit to the .'Treasurer a collection made by him to the amount of One Guinea, shall be entitled for the current year to the same privileges as an Annual Subscriber of One Guinea. XIII. No Patient shall be admitted without a printed recommendation signed by a Subscriber, and countersigned by a Member of the Hospital Medical Staff. The time of every Patient’s discharge shall be left to the discretion of the Medical Officer attending the case, who must however report in writing to the Committee should the time exceed two months. XIV. In cases of accidents or emergency ,the Matron or any Member of the Hospital Medical Staff, shall be authorised to suspend the foregoing Rules respecting the admission of Patients, so as to occasion no delay. XV. Every requisite, except personal clothing, will be provided in the Hospital. Patients shall submit to the Regulations of the Hospital, and not receive food or drink from any other source, without the sanction of a Medical Officer. XYI. The Hospital, Land and Buildings, and all property devoted to the use of the Hospital, and all Legacies bequeathed to it, shall be vested in Trustees, who shall invest or otherwise deal with such Legacies under the direction of the Committee. The Trustees for the time being shall be indemnified out of the property of the Hospital against all losses and expenses which they may incur or sustain as Trustees. XVII. The first Trustees were Mr. John Jones, Minafon; Dr. Watkin Roberts, and Mr. John Owen, Ty Coch. All subsequent Trustees shall be elected at the Annual Meeting, or at a General Meeting of Life Members and Annual Sub¬ scribers of 10s. 6d. and upwards, convened for that purpose. The present Trustees are the Hon. F. G. Wynn, Glynllifon ; Mr. J. E. Greaves, Gian- gwna, and Mr. Charles A. Jones.