The British Home for Incurables : appeal / Robert G. Salmond, secretary.

  • Salmond, Robert G.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Credit: The British Home for Incurables : appeal / Robert G. Salmond, secretary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    British; ferine for incurables. APPEAL. The British Home for Incurables was instituted in 1861, to assist in supplying an important and acknowledged want among the great Charities with which the Metropolis abounds. Until a recent date no Institution for the reception of the Incurable existed in England : whilst it has been clearly ascertained that the number of persons who annually die of incurable disease in the United Kingdom amounts to about two hundred thousand. Among these there must necessarily be many who claim the strongest sympathy of the benevolent. There are those \ who are able to procure for themselves all the aid and all the alleviation of which their cases admit: but there are also very many who—with failing health and strength, and the slow and insidious approach of incurable disease, and its frequent accompaniment of racking pain—have gradually fallen from the comforts and enjoyments of affluence to the utmost desti¬ tution and want. No person can read the simple narrative of the distressing cases brought forward from time to time without feeling the deepest commiseration ; and it is to relieve this deep and crying misery that the aid of the charitable is now most earnestly solicited. There are thousands among the Middle Classes who, having formerly lived in comfort and respectability, have been reduced by incurable disease to the most distressing poverty, and who are altogether deprived of the means of procuring Medical aid, and those necessaries which their suffering condition demands.