Office of the Hospital for Sick Children.

  • Hospital for Sick Children (London, England)
Date:
1850]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Office of the Hospital for Sick Children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Mice of tije hospital for Stcfc <£fjtttrcett, 32, Sachville Street, Piccadilly, March, 1850. Sir, The Provisional Committee of the Hospital for Sick Children, feeling that the success of their endeavors to establish such an institution in London must depend mainly on the degree in which it obtains the approval and receives the help of members of the Medical Profession, have commissioned us to submit to you the following statement of the grounds upon which they venture to urge upon you its special claims to your support. By their desire we avail ourselves also of this opportunity to explain more fully than would he fitting in an address designed for the general public, the reasons for some of the proposed arrangements; and to anticipate, and, if possible, to remove any objections likely to present themselves to medical men, which might induce them to hesitate in lending their aid to this philanthropic object. The high rate of mortality in early life, still little diminished by the efforts of the last fifty years; the small amount of accommodation for Children which our Hospitals afford; the success which has attended the establishment of Children’s Hospitals in seventeen other cities of Europe, and the benefit to all classes of the commu¬ nity likely to flow from a similar institution in our own land—are the topics on which the Committee have dwelt in urging its claims on the benevolence of the Public. But while arguments derived from these considerations do not appeal more forcibly to the Public in general than to members of our own profession, they alone can