Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity : half-yearly address and medical and general statement ... / Dr. Robertson.

  • Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity : half-yearly address and medical and general statement ... / Dr. Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEVONSHIRE HOSPITAL AND BUXTON BATH CHARITY. Half-1 carte JViteress and Jlctiical and (general Statement. At a meeting of the Committee of Management, held at the Hospital on Saturday, July 5th, 1884, DR. ROBERTSON, F.R.C.P., (Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Committee of Management), in the Chair, The Chairman delivered the following address, as to the results of the work of the Hospital during the half-year, and as to the general financial position of the Charity :— During the half-year ending June 30th, 1,102 In-patients were admitted to the Hospital. It will be again noted that this is a considerable increase beyond the number of patients received during the first half of the previous years, representing probably one half, or nearly one half, of the total number of patients expected to be received during the year, thus spreading the work more equally over a larger number of months, and showing, it is hoped, a lessening prejudice against the resort to Buxton, on the part of the patients, during the earlier periods of the year. This may be important as affording to some, and perhaps to many, an earlier use of the Buxton mineral waters in their several cases, and helping to establish the opinion as to the undesirability of crowding the applications for admission to the Hospital during a comparatively few weeks, and leaving the Hospital with a very few patients during some weeks or months at the beginning and end of every year.