Report of the Weekly Board, respecting certain charges brought against St. George's Hospital.

  • St. George's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1825
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Credit: Report of the Weekly Board, respecting certain charges brought against St. George's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their general treatment; and are particularly questioned as to the attention and kindness of the nurses. The Weekly Board can therefore fairly assert, that they have, to the utmost, exerted themselves to prevent, and to detect abuses; and where they have found, as they almost uni¬ versally have, the objects of their bounty not only contented, but grateful, they were not, they confess, prepared for the serious charges lately brought against an institution, the duties of which they believe to be so conscientiously dis¬ charged, that it may at all times challenge the strictest investigation. They trust, however, that a plain statement of the grounds on which these charges rest will fully satisfy the public mind of their injustice, and secure to St. George’s Hospital a continuance of that liberal support, which the daily increasing demands upon it, and the necessity for a new and considerably enlarged building, so essentially require. This statement is made under the influence of no angry feelings. They are willing to believe, that those by whom the clamour was first excited, while they laboured under a misconception, were not influenced by any unworthy motives; and it will be seen that the Weekly Board have abstained; as much as was in their power, from introducing any observa¬ tions, or alluding to any topics, which might give to this document the appearance of an attempt at recrimination, ——» ( The first case to which the Weekly Case of 1 Board have to advert, is that of James James Wheeler, j Wheeler, who died in St. George’s Hos- V pital on the 27th of last February, and on whom a Coroner’s Jury was held, on the 3rd day of