An account of the proceedings of the governors of St. George's Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner, for the year 1855 : with a list of the governors and subscribers.

  • St. George's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1856
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Credit: An account of the proceedings of the governors of St. George's Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner, for the year 1855 : with a list of the governors and subscribers. 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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    knowledge of the Gospel, and in stimulating them to a walk and conversation becoming its profession. These are some among the advantages afforded by St. George’s Hospital to the general cases of distress which are continually received within its walls. About 350 patients are now constantly accommodated in the House, and no trouble nor expense is spared, which can ad- minister to their comfort, or insure their recovery : but after all that had been accomplished by the zeal and bene- volence cf the supporters of the Institution, something appeared to be still wanting which might give greater effect to the Charity. Tt was found that many of those patients who had received benefit, were, on their discharge from the Hospital, temporarily disabled from resuming their customary occupations, and were in consequence in- volved in deep distress, when least able to encounter its pressure ; it being frequently noticed that those who were dismissed in a convalescent state (though still suffering from the debilitating effects of recent sickness and long confinement, and incapable of immediate exertion) were exposed to all the miseries attendant upon helpless poverty; a recurrence of their complaint, with increased violence, became almost the necessary consequence, and, in some instances, the unhappy sufferers again returned to the Hospital merely to die—all of which melancholy results might have been avoided, could a small pecuniary assist- ance have been afforded when the patients were first dis- charged from the House. A deep sense of the importance of the facts contained in this statement, induced the Governors some years ago to