Annual report : 1928 / Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital.

  • Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital.
Date:
1928
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Credit: Annual report : 1928 / Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital. THE following is the Fourth Annual Report of the Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital. The number of patients treated during the year has increased from 177 in 1927 to 214 in 1928. There have been 195 surgical cases, 19 medical cases, and 7 deaths. A very successful Egg Week was held in April, the collection again showing an increase on last year, and the Committee are very grateful to all donors and collectors for assisting to make this annual event such a success. In previous years, Pound Day has been held in November, but, in order to avoid clashing with Stamford Infirmary Pound Day and the Harvest Festivals, it has been arranged that, in future, it shall take place in February of each year. The very generous support of the Hospital by entertain¬ ments, gifts in kind, donations, Church collections and contribu¬ tions from Harvest Festivals has been continued this year as in the past, the money from Harvest Festivals, Offertories having been twice the amount contributed last year. The Committee wish to take this opportunity of most cordially thanking all the friends of the Hospital who have so kindly assisted in these ways towards its maintenance. The Penny League continues in a most flourishing con¬ dition, the receipts for the year showing a slight increase, and once again the thanks of the Committee are due to the collectors who work so hard week by week. Several patients from Oakham and Uppingham have experienced the benefit during the past year of belonging to this League. The work of Sister Thompson and the Staff has, as usual, been beyond all praise, and the Committee thank them most cordially for their loyal co-operation and ungrudging service. Grateful acknowledgment is made of a very generous gift of £150 five per cent War Stock from the Trustees of Mr. Hickling’s Fund, through Mr. J. E. Corby, who was High Sheriff of Rutland for four years.