Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary : with nine illustrations and one map / by John Poland.

  • Poland, John, 1855-1937.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary : with nine illustrations and one map / by John Poland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    * conclusively the enormous amount of extra work in the Dispensary departments produced by the establishment of the Hospital. The following- table shows the steady annual increase in the number of accidents attended at the Hospital since it was first opened in 1885. 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 The annual 46 cases. 149 557 1,090 1,461 1,682 i,974 2,435 3,267 the number of increase in patients imperatively calls for a more generous support from the public and particularly from the many large employers of labour in the neigh- bourhood whose numerous workmen are being continuously benefited by the care, skill, and attention, bestowed upon them when brought to the Hospital through injury and other causes; who are attended to at once, and in nearly all cases without any letter of recommendation. Great as are the needs of East London— the vastness of the population, and the great claims of London South of the Thames, have at least an equal claim upon the benevolent and philanthropic public.