Rules of the Beckett Hospital & Dispensary at Barnsley / revised and passed at the General Annual Meeting of the Governors, June 21st, 1883.

  • Beckett Hospital and Dispensary (Barnsley, England)
Date:
1883
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Credit: Rules of the Beckett Hospital & Dispensary at Barnsley / revised and passed at the General Annual Meeting of the Governors, June 21st, 1883. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    FUNDS. _ 68.—All Donations and Bequests above £20 (except as otherwise directed by the Donor) shall be invested in the names of the Trustees, and onty the income thereof applied to the current expenses. And all Subscriptions and such Donations as are not given for a special purpose and shall not exceed £20, shall be passed by the Treasurer to the credit of the Hospital Fund. 69. —All Annual Supscriptions must be paid to the Treasurer or the Collector, at the earliest convenience of the subscriber after the 21st day of June in each year. BOOKS. 70. —There shall be a House Committee’s Book, recording visit together with any matter worthy of note. 71. —The Treasurer’s Account Book of moneys received and paid by him on account of the Institution may be kept at the house, but shall be open at all times to inspection, and shall be sent by him, on requisition, to any Special, General, or Committee Meeting of Governors, and shall be laid before the General Yearly Meeting. *2.—The House Surgeon shall also keep a book in which he shall enter the Medicines, Drugs, and Instruments ordered by any Medical Officer, with the date of the order, which order shall bear the autograph signature of such officer. 73.—There shall be two Minute Books, in one of which shall be entered the date and proceedings of each General Annual and Special General Meeting ; and in the other those of the Meetings of each Monthly Board. At every such Meeting there shall be an acting Secretary, who shall take note of the proceedings and make fair entries of the same in the Minute Book, afterwards procuring the signature of the Chairman to such entries, producing at the same time his rough draft for the entry to be verified, if desired. 71.—The House Surgeon shall keep an Inventory Book of Instru- ments, according to Rule 49. <-Y—He shall also keep two books containing lists of In-Patients and Out-Patients, according to Rule 51. 76. — The Matron shall keep an Inventory Book, according to Rule 57, GENERAL MEETINGS. 77. —A General Yearly Meeting of the Governors (five to be a quorum) shall be held at the Hospital on the 21st of June, except that day happen on a Sunday, and then on the following day, one week’s previous notice having been given by letter to each Governor, and advertisement thereof inserted in one or more of the Barnsley Newspapers. The Governors duly qualified assembled at each