The fifty fourth annual report of the Royal Humane Society ... 1828.

  • Royal Humane Society (London, England)
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[1828]
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    judice existed against the practicability of Resuscitation, and that the idea was even ridiculed as hopeless and chi- merical, he determined to demonstrate it. With this view he publicly offered rewards to persons who, between Lon- don and Westminster Bridges, should, within a certain period from the occurrence of an accident, rescue the bodies of drowned persons, and bring them to places ap- pointed on shore for their reception, in order that the means of resuscitation might be tried. At these places he and his friends restored several lives.—During a whole year Dr. Hawes continued to pay these rewards himself. At the end of this period Dr. Cogan represented to him the injury his private fortune must sustain by such conti- nued expences, and kindly offered to unite with him for the formation of the Humane Society, which at first con- sisted of thirty-two individuals, their respective private friends *. Until the end of Dr. Hawes’s life the Institu- * The names of these Thirty-two Gentlemen, who, with Dr. Hawes and Dr. Cogan, laid the foundation of the Society, deservte to be recorded. The following is a list of them : Mr. Armiger. Rev. Mr. Bouillier. Fred. Bull, Esq. and Aid. Dr. William Cooper. Mr. Delver. Mr. Denham. Mr. William Fox. Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. Rev. Richard Harrison. Mr. Benjamin Hawes. Dr. Heberden. Thomas Tower, Esq. Rev. Dr. Towers. W. T owgood, Esq. Mr. William Townsend. Dr. Kooystra. Robert Palmer, Esq. Mr. Patten. Mr. Michael Pearson. Mr. Phipps. Samuel Prime, Esq. Mr. John Bewley Rich. Rev. M. Snowden. James Horsfall, Esq. F.R.S. Mr. John Jacob. Mr. Joseph Jacob. Rev. Dr. Jeffries. J. C. Lettsom, M.D. F.R.S. Rev. Mr. Van Essen. Mr. Warrand. Dr. Watkinson. Mr. Wright.