Annual report of the Manchester Ear Hospital for diseases of the ear, nose and throat : 1940.

  • Manchester Ear Hospital (Manchester, England)
Date:
1940
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Manchester Ear Hospital for diseases of the ear, nose and throat : 1940. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. The General Committee shall consist of not less than ten members, elected from the body of the subscribers, and the hon¬ orary medical officers shall be ex-officio members of the' General Committee. 8. The General Committee shall control, manage, and superintend the affairs of the Hospital and have power to appoint and on occasion to dismiss or suspend all or any persons required to conduct the business of the Charity, except the honorary medical officers, who can only be displaced at the Annual Meeting. 9. The General Committee shall appoint a House Committee. 10. The General Committee shall meet at least once every month (three to form a quorum) for the transaction of business, to receive the monthly general and numerical reports of the House Committee and Medical Staff, to regulate the accounts, and to take cognizance of the general state and working of the Charity. At such meetings the Committee-shall be entitled to make and alter bye-laws for the government of the Charity, provided that such bye-laws be not contrary to the rules of the Hospital. At such meetings no resolution shall be taken on any subject outside routine business, unless notice of such subject shall have been given in convening the meeting. 11. The Medical Staff shall consist of one or more Con suiting Physicians and Surgeons, and two or more Honorary Surgeons, and one or more Honorary Assistant Surgeons, to¬ gether with a qualified practitioner as Anaesthetist; and when a member of the staff has fulfilled the duties of Surgeon during the period of fifteen years he shall, on retirement only, be entitled to become, at his own option, Consulting Surgeon, or he may previously be so appointed by the General Committee on the recommendation of the MedicaJ Committee. 12. The Medical Committee shall consist of the Honorary Medical Officers for the time being and shall meet at least once every month, at some convenient time previous to the meeting of the General Committee, to draw up its monthly general and numerical reports, and to concert measures for its united action ; the minutes of its proceedings shall be regularly kept and pre¬ sented to the monthly meeting of the General Committee; and for the annual general meeting it shall furnish reports and yearly statistical returns, both from the Hospital and Dispensary. The Medical Board shall at its first meeting in each year elect a chair¬ man, who at its meetings shall, if the votes be equal, have a second or casting vote.