A second letter to the general court of contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; containing remarks on the proceedings at the meeting held on the 30th March, 1818. To which are annexed, the report of the committee, the reported speech of the Lord President, and the resolutions of the general meeting of the 30th March / By a contributor.

Date:
1818
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Credit: A second letter to the general court of contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; containing remarks on the proceedings at the meeting held on the 30th March, 1818. To which are annexed, the report of the committee, the reported speech of the Lord President, and the resolutions of the general meeting of the 30th March / By a contributor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Patients, who, from the very nature of the Insti¬ tution, must be supposed, as they really do, to belong to the very lowest classes of society— when it was considered that these were left to the superintendance of SO or 40 Nurses, selected from among the most miserable of their sex, how was it to be expected that no cause of complaint should ever creep into such an Institution ?” I cannot subscribe to either part of this statement. The Patients who enter the Infirmary are by no means all of the very lowest classes of society ; but are, many of them, respectable trades-people, or people from the country, who resort to it, not from absolute poverty, but from a wish to obtain there the benefit of superior Medical ad¬ vice and assistance; and many of them, also, are the servants of the best families in Edinburgh, sent in by their masters. Some of the NufSes are bad, very bad, indeed ; but I can assure the Eight Honourable Manager, that if he had been fully acquainted with the state of the Infir¬ mary, and the characters of the Nurses, he would have known, that they do not all deserve that character which he has given of them. One is surprised to find it asserted, that no woman