"Hospital Sunday".

Date:
[1870 ?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: "Hospital Sunday". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are the advantages to be derived from a united effort as com¬ pared with any isolated endeavour to induce charitable persons bo contribute towards the support of public institutions. In the year 1855 the Infirmary received, as the proceeds of col¬ lections at places of worship, the sum of £9. 13s. 6d.; in 1857 the amount was £60; while, under the system of simultaneous collections, its share in 1861 was £675, and £620 in 1869. “I observe,” the secretary says, “from the character of the coins received, that it brings in the half- crowns, shillings, and sixpences, which the donors would not think it worth while making a special visit to the charities to present.” Correspondents have obligingly enabled us to state that “ Hospital Sunday,” in a restricted sense, is observed at Kidderminster for the Infirmary, at Lowestoft for the Infirm¬ ary, at Sunderland for the Infirmary, and at Belfast for the General Hospital. We venture to urge that what has been found to work so well wherever it has been tried, even on the smallest scale and with a limited application, would yield commensurate results if it were tried on the comprehensive basis we have previously suggested. Surely London will not consent to be beaten in a charitable work by its small er sister-cities and towns, Bir¬ mingham, Bristol, and Carlisle. 12th xvIarch, 1870. It will be readily understood with what great satisfaction we record the fact that in the third largest city of the kingdom