The Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, 1770 to 1900 / [Sir Peter Eade].

  • Eade, Peter, Sir, 1825-1915.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, 1770 to 1900 / [Sir Peter Eade]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Additions made to the fire extinguishing appliances of the Hospital, and a fire brigade formed under the Management of the Secretary. A more thorough and systematic training of the Nurses arranged by the Medical Staff. Lectures to be given, periodical Examinations to be held, and Certificates given. The duties of Nurses and Probationers considered. Mr. Cadge announced to be the donor of the ;Cio,ooo (in reversion) to the building fund ; and in addition to be intending to hand over this sum at once. An honorary Dental Surgeon to the Hospital to be appointed, and Mr. Richard Wentworth White, M.R.C.S., L.D.S., elected to the office. A provisional arrangement made with the ‘ Surgical Appliance’ Society. The newly revised Laws of the Hospital adopted, and printed. A room proposed to be taken from the Isolation Block and added to the Nurses’ sleeping department. The accom- modation in this reported to be inadequate and unsatisfactory. The proposition carried out in 1891. 1890. Mr. Cadge received from the Town Council the Honorary Freedom of the City of Norwich. A new ward of the Hospital furnished, in view of emergencies or temporary pressure of patients, at a cost of 17. 9* A portrait of Mr. Cadge, painted by Herkomer, and pro- vided by private Subscriptions, presented to the Hospital, and hung in the Board-room. Mr. B. E. Fletcher offered to build and furnish a Con- valescent Home in connection with the Hospital, and the President (the Earl of Leicester, K.G.) offered to endow it with the sum of AiSpoo. (Afterwards increased to A20,ooo.) A resolution adopted to nominate a committee, “ to