Annual report : 1929 / Petersfield Cottage Hospital.

  • Petersfield Cottage Hospital. no2006026985.
Date:
1929
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1929 / Petersfield Cottage Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Committee are satisfied that it forms a very value able addition to the Hospital, and thank Mr. Mackarness and Mr. Jacobs for their services in negotiating for the purchase, and their kindness in waving their respective fees to the Hospital. In the death of Mr. F. W. Russell the Hospital has lost a very valued friend and benefactor. Soon after his coming to Petersfield in 1893 he became interested in the Hospital. The Saturday and Sunday Hospital Fund had been inaugurated some years before by the Friendly Societies, and at a later period was joined by the Working Men’s Association, in their endea¬ vour to raise annually a sum of money for the Hospital. Mr. Russell from this time took a leading part in organis¬ ing and extending the scope of the work, becoming Chairman of their Committee and remaining so up to the time of his death. Year after year his one great ambition was to eclipse each year the success of the previous year, and in this he was nearly always success¬ ful ; raising the amount of about £50 in those early days to the record sum of £390 in 1928. Needless to say, the results of this well-organised voluntary effort have in many years saved the Hospital from debt, and Mr. Russell always infused his fellow-helpers with his own energy and hard work in this good cause, and they never failed him. By the good result of the Fund’s effort during 1929, in handing over the sum of £295, the Com¬ mittee, under Mr. W. H. Wilkins, is determined to carry on Mr. Russell’s good work, and Mr. W. H. Wilkins, who has worked for the Fund for many years, is to be warmly congratulated on carrying on with such initial success. The Committee take this opportunity of thanking all kind friends for the many gifts sent by them, which have been acknowledged from time to time in the Local Press, by the kind permission of the Editor. The following, from some hundreds received during the year,