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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    The thanks of the Board are due not only for the very substantial direct benefits received from the Association, but also for the constant increase in the friends of the Hospital, which is a happy result of its operations. The London Needlework Guild once more repeated, at Christmas, its welcome gift of a large parcel of warm clothing for the patients. The grateful thanks of the Board are given to the Guild for the continuance of this valuable help. The Board again sincerely thank The Flannel Shirt Club for the supply of men’s flannel shirts, kindly sent to the Hospital. The Ladies of the Flower Mission have continued their efforts to cheer the patients in the wards by visiting and singing to them, and by contributing flowers to brighten the wards. This kindness the Board again gratefully acknowledge. St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen has continued during the year its useful work of supplying nourishing food to many of the Out¬ patients. It often happens that it is food rather than medicine that our Out-patients require, and the Kitchen therefore meets a very real want. The Parkwood Convalescent Home. The Board again record their grateful thanks for the beds continued to be placed at the disposal of the Hospital during the year at the Hospital Convalescent Home, Parkwood, Swanley. Two hundred and eighteen In-patients—128 men and 90 women —enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a stay in this admirable Convalescent Home, free of expense to the Hospital. Out-Patients. Enquiry. The work of the Lady Almoner, which consists not only of enquiries into the circumstances of applicants with the view of excluding those who ought not to receive free Hospital treatment,