Report of the Committee of the Portland Hospital.

  • Committee of the Portland Hospital.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Report of the Committee of the Portland Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECRETARY’S REPORT HAVING been invited by Captain Bagot to act as Secretary in England, when the idea to send out a Field Hospital to aid the military authorities in South Africa was originally formed by Mrs Bagot and Mr Stoker, and subsequently by the Duke of Portland when he became interested in it, i accepted the post, and my duties as Secretary and my connection with the hospital may be said to have commenced on the ist December 1899, when a Committee Meeting was held. At this meeting it was resolved that the hospital should be called the “ Portland Hospital,” in consequence of the generous support which had been given to it by His Grace. It was also decided that the further organisation and arrangements for the equipment should be left to the Secretary and the Medical Officers, who, with one exception, had already been selected by Sir Thomas Smith, Bart., the eminent surgeon, to accompany the hospital, and were : Mr Anthony Bowlby, F.R.C.S., of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Dr Howard Tooth, M.D., F.R.C.P., of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and Mr Cuthbert Wallace, M.B., F.R.C.S., of St Thomas’s Hospital. Mr Calverley, M.B., B.S., was selected at the meeting as the fourth Medical Officer in the place of Mr Stoker, who resigned in consequence of some compulsory altera- tions that had been made in the nature of the hospital by the Army Medical Department. We had the assist- ance of Mr Oliver Williams, and I may here state that the services of this gentleman have been invaluable, and to his untiring energy and interest in all matters con- nected with the hospital at home, I attribute very largely