"Hospital Sunday".

Date:
[1870 ?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    ing of those who are not able to pay for the medical treatment and care necessary for their restoration to health have npon those whose means are sufficient for their own and others’ needs, would be undoubtedly great. And the practical result would be, that in enabling our medical charities to maintain and extend the sphere of their operations by the additional support they would derive from the “ Hospital Sunday” col¬ lections, numbers of persons would be prevented from becom¬ ing permanently chargeable on the poor rates, and thus the tide of advancing pauperism would have at least one of its sources dried up. 22nd January, 1870. We have some reason to hope that, although our sugges¬ tion for a national “ Hospital Sunday ” may possibly not be carried out at present, on the complete scale we desire, yet, in many of our large towns, it will be very generally acted upon. The practice of making collections in churches for hospitals and other medical charities is, and has long been, common enough. But such efforts have, except in the notable instance of Birmingham, been almost entirely of a partial character, from the fact that they have been rather the results of spasmodic and uncertain promptings than of any recognized principle of action. In Birmingham a plan thoroughly systematized, and of general application, has been in operation for eleven years; all the congregations co-operate in the good work, and all the medical charities of the town participate in