To the President and Governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary.

  • Hussey, E. L. (Edward Law)
Date:
[1875]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: To the President and Governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the special business which the Quarterly Court at its rising left to them. All the proper business of the Court had been ended at the former Meeting on the 16th of February, to which day the Court had been adjourned. If it had been supposed that any subject would be brought forward, but the special business of which notice had been given, it would have been in the power of other Governors to attend and take part in the proceedings, with — it is not unlikely, — a dif- ferent result as regards the Report. The opportunity was not given them to do so. The Report might have been dismissed with the remark that the writer, not having succeeded in the purpose for which he was employed,— ‘Any attempt to unravel the respective influence of direct contagion, infected wards, or general sanitary state of the In- firmary or of the several wards, at this period of the prevalence, would be hopeless : — ‘ It is impossible to state the respective parts played by this condition and by infection, in the development of the different cases of erysipelas: ’ — discusses at great length matters on which his opinion was not asked, — though, as might be expected, in some degree of doubt and uncertainty, being without ‘ a knowlege of the intimate working of the Infirmary, which is not to be gathered from a brief enquiry like this he has been engaged in.’