Annual report : 1910 / St. Mary's Hospital.

St. Mary's Hospital (London, England)

Date:: 1910

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Credit: Annual report : 1910 / St. Mary's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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i5 The following Members of the Honorary Medical Staff were elected Medical Members of the Board for the ensuing year :—- Sir John Broadbent, Bart. Mr. W. H. Clayton Greene. Dr. M. Handheld Jones. Dr. Wilfred Harris. Mr. J. E. Lane. Dr. A. P. Luff. Dr. Sidney Phillips. Sir Almroth Wright, F.R.S. At the first meeting of the Board after the election, Mr. W. Austen Leigh was elected Chairman and Mr. G. A. Byron, Deputy Chairman; and at the first meeting of the House and Finance Committee, Mr. Arthur R. Prideaux was appointed Chairman of that Committee. Later in the year vacant seats on the Board were filled by the election of Mr. C. F. Krabbe and the Hon. Sir Richard Solomon, K.C.B. The latter has, however, been prevented by pressure of public business from retaining his place among us. Lady Members of the Board. At the meeting of the Board on 16th June, the following important Resolution, proposed after due notice by the late Mr. H. A. Harben, was carried : “ That it is desirable that the Board of Management should consist partly of women.” It was believed that in several branches of Hospital administration, notably Nursing and Domestic Management, ladies are specially qualified to take part; and although there was nothing in the laws of the Hospital, as they stood, to prevent the election of ladies as members of the Board, it was deemed expedient, as such election would be a new departure, to have the question specially considered, with the above result. The Ladies’ Association. Once again the Board record their warm thanks to the Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Members and Associates of both branches of the Ladies’ Association, who have continued their most helpful exertions for the benefit of the Hospital with undiminished energy and success during the past year.