Volume 2

Reminiscences in the life of Surgeon-Major George A. Hutton / With an introduction by R. Lawton Roberts.

  • Hutton, George A. (George Allan), 1830-1919.
Date:
1907-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Reminiscences in the life of Surgeon-Major George A. Hutton / With an introduction by R. Lawton Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    crusade had been so successful in the increased number of classes and the large quantity of ambulance material and stretchers supplied to the various places in the counties of Durham and Northumberland that in the following year (1888) the committee requested me to conduct a second crusade in the Northern counties. There was the more need for this as the new Mines Regulation Act, founded on the recommendations made by the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, had come into operation in the beginning of the year. I left home on September 16 for Lancaster, to attend the quinquennial festival of the Royal Albert Asylum. My object for this was that, as the medical superin¬ tendent (Dr. Shuttleworth) had taken great interest in ambulance work in connexion with the institution, and as a large gathering of influential persons was expected, I might have some influence in making more widely known our ambulance work. I passed on from Lancaster to the North, and attended and gave addresses, up to October 29, at nineteen public meetings in the counties of Durham and Northumberland and along the banks of the Tyne, which abound in great factories and ship¬ building yards. Speaking as often as I did, it was necessary to somewhat vary my texts, and oppor¬ tunities sometimes arose that I was glad to make use of. One point which seemed of much interest in the county of Durham, as well as to the Order of St. John, was an eloquent sermon preached by the Bishop of Durham (Lightfoot) at the opening of the Church Con¬ gress the previous year at Wolverhampton. The learned Bishop, in alluding to the true spiritual capital of the world, said : * Not at Memphis or Thebes, not Nineveh or Babylon, or Susa, or Persopolis ; not Athens, or Alexandria, or Rome, but Jerusalem, was the spiritual