Report : 1919 / Middlesex Hospital.

Middlesex Hospital.

Date:: 1919

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Credit: Report : 1919 / Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Two other new Special Departments have been created to treat cases of Proctology and of Urinary Diseases, under the care of Mr. C. H. S. Webb and Mr. A. E. Webb-Johnson respectively. Mr. Herbert Charles and Mr. P. E. Apperly have been elected • as Honorary Anaesthetists to the Hospital, and Mr. T. G. A. Burns Consulting Anaesthetist. Mr. A. de Winter Baker has relinquished his temporary appoint¬ ment as Besident Medical Officer, and Mr. S. S. Beare has been elected to fill this important post. The B-evd. W. E. Cargill has been elected as Chaplain to the Hospital. It is with profound regret that we have to record the death of Dr. C. B. C. Lyster, Consultant to the Electro-Therapeutic Depart¬ ment. He had been compelled by illness, due to his devotion to duty, to resign his active control of this Department but a short time before his death. His untiring and unselfish efforts on behalf of humanity had been rewarded with many valuable results ; the University of London, recognising the importance of his work, has instituted a Chair of Badiology at the Hospital, and it is hoped that a fitting memorial to Dr, Lyster may materialise in the adequate endowment of this Professorship. We would also record our regret at the sudden death of the Bevd. Prebendary F. S. Webster, Bector of All Souls, only a few days after he had relinquished the office of Chaplain to the Hospital. He had taken up this work at a time of difficulty during the War, and carried it on with conspicuous success. To our regret we have lost an old and valued member of the Drug Committee, Sir Peter Squire, who for many years had given us the benefit of his experience and advice. We are fortunate to have obtained the services of Mr. J. D. Marshall as a new member of the Drug Committee. The Endowment of the “ Die Hards ” Bed in memory of the Officers and other Banks of the Middlesex Begiment who fell in the War has been completed. A touching dedicatory service was con¬ ducted by the Bishop of London in the presence of a large gathering of members and friends of the Begiment. We have largely to thank the energy and generosity of Mr. G. F. Sexton for the successful issue of this undertaking. The St. Marylebone Committee of the United Services Fund propose to endow 2 Beds and 1 Cot for the benefit of ex-service men and their dependents. We hope that shortly the complete scheme will be settled. The Ladies’ Work Society, under the Presidency of the Dowager Countess of Derby, has once more contributed largely of their time and good work, with the result that a most gratifying number of garments for the patients’ use has been regularly forthcoming ; on their behalf wre thank the willing wielders of the needle.