Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses.

Date:
1812
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Credit: Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses. 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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    Life Subscribers of fifteen guineas, and coti-* tributors of not less than two guineas each pet- annum, are Governors of this Charity; but sub- scribers of smaller sums are denominated Mem- bers. Patients may be recommended in the following ratio, viz. For every guinea subscribed per annum, as well as for every life subscription, two patients (whether affiicted with ruptures or prolapses) maybe recom- mended within the year, to be provided with single trusses of the best quality; or one patient, requiring a double truss, or an umbilical bandage of equal value. Annual subscribers of two guineas are al- lowed as many patients as shall require four single, or two double, trusses ; and the same proportion is extended to subscribers of larger sums. '* By a late order of the Governors, notice has been publicly given to parochial officers, superin- tendants of Hospitals, and the conductors of other charitable Institutions, that the benefits of this Society are extended to all parts of the kingdom; provided exact descriptions of the cases, with proper measurements of the patients, be sent by any Sub- scriber, post paid, to Mr. BLAIR, Surgeon, No. 69, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury Square. In consequence of this order, the heads of several parishes and public Institutions have subscribed to the New Rupture Society, and are thus enabled to relieve their own afflicted poor. q ^-y The annual and progressive number of poor sufferers at* tended by the Surgeon of this Charity, most of whom were ■totally destitute of the necessary Apparatus for their persona! safety, is as follows: f 1S05 to 1806 No. ■ 39 1806 to 1807 ~ 189 1807 to r8q8 — 393 From March the25th«( i8c8 to 1809 — 374 1809 to 1810 J— 451 1810 to 1811 -— 593 1811 to 1812