"Hospital Sunday".

Date:
[1870 ?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    In ten years, 1859 to 1868, inclusive, the collections on Bir¬ mingham “ Hospital Sunday” have produced <£37,631. 19s. 5d. 13th November, 1869. The success which has attended the institution of an “ Hospital Sunday,” at Birmingham, should encourage other towns to follow so excellent an example. For our own parts we should like to see the custom adopted universally throughout the kingdom, of setting apart one Sunday in the year for a recognition in every Christian place of worship of the claims of local medical charities. 4th December, 1869. We very earnestly hope that the suggestion we lately made, that the institution of an u Hospital Sunday” on a national scale should be attempted, will not prove to have been sown on stony ground, like some of the seed in the parable, but rather that it may have fallen where it will fructify and bring forth fruit a hundredfold. We start from the fact that in one provincial town, Birmingham, it has been found practicable to bring about the co-operation of the clergy of all denominations in setting apart one Sunday in each of the past eleven years for collections in all the churches and chapels of the town, on behalf of its medical charities. The average annual amount so collected has been close on £4,000; and the principle of distribution has been to aportion the proceeds one year to one large hospital, the next year to the