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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    We have frequently insisted on this fact as a reason for increasing the capacity of the Miller Hospital, and it is especially gratifying to observe that the Lords Committee directs notice to it as the probable nucleus of a new General Hospital. To quote again from the Report, it says :— On the south side of the river, St. Thomas’s and Guy’s are the only general hospitals, neither of which is at present open to its fullest extent for patients (the Miller Memorial at Greenwich is the nucleus of a third); and the deficiency of the hospital accommodation for that part of London was strongly insisted on. This appears to us to be a matter of great importance. With a recognition of this kind from so important an authority as this Select Committee of the House of Lords, not only of the desirability but of the practicability of developing the Miller Hospital into a much larger institution, adapted to meet the requirements of the district in which it is situated, time certainly should not be lost in taking the matter into consideration. It is quite certain that increased hospital accommodation in South-East London is urgently required. It is equally certain that Greenwich is the centre of the district where this accommodation is most needed, and here in the existing Miller Hospital is the opportunity afforded for the expansion of the institution to meet the requirements of the case.” See also Burdetts Hospital Annual, 1893. “We are pleased to be able to announce that pre- liminary measures have been taken with a view to promote the carrying of this suggestion into effect, and although these are not yet sufficiently ripe for publication, yet they have proceeded far enough to obtain the express approval of Her Majesty the Queen of the project, who has graciously forwarded a contribution to the Fund proposed to be raised.—Kentish Mercury, 22nd July, 1892.”