Rules and orders, together with the duties of the several officers and servants / approved by [G. Grey,] Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 9th May, 1866.

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Date:
[1866?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rules and orders, together with the duties of the several officers and servants / approved by [G. Grey,] Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 9th May, 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CHAPLAIN. 73. There shall be a Chaplain, who shall be a Clergyman of the Church of England in Priest’s Orders, not under thirty, nor above forty-five years of age at the time of his election, and who shall reside within two miles of the Hospital. 74). He shall perform Divine Service, Morning and Evening, in the Chapel of Bethlem Hospital, on every Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Eriday, at such times as shall be appointed, to the Officers and Servants of the Establishment, and such of the Patients as the Resident Physician shall deem it desirable should attend. 75. He shall administer the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, at least once in every quarter, to such of the Household as may require it, and tc such of the Patients as may require it, and as he and the Resident Physician shall consider in a fit state to receive it. 76. He shall visit the Hospital on at least two other stated days in every week, at stated hours, and when requested by the Resident Physician, for the purpose of affording religious consolatior and instruction to those Patients whom the Resi¬ dent Physician shall point out to him as likely to be