Hospitals : their funds and management, their abuses and remedies : with special reference to the proposed foundation of a children's hospital : a letter to Arthur Ryland, Esquire, Mayor of Birmingham / from a hospital surgeon.

  • Hospital surgeon.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Hospitals : their funds and management, their abuses and remedies : with special reference to the proposed foundation of a children's hospital : a letter to Arthur Ryland, Esquire, Mayor of Birmingham / from a hospital surgeon. 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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    THEIR FUNDS, MANAGEMENT, &c., WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PROPOSED FOUNDATION OF A CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. + TO ARTHUR RYLAND, ESQUIRE, V MAYOR OF BIRMINGHAM. Sir, I was present, though silent, at the Meeting, convened by you, the 12th inst., in the Council chamber, to consider the propriety of u Founding a,Hospital for Sick Chil- dren. ” The object was a good and great one, and those who took a leading part were all men distinguished for undoubted philanthropy; some, for learning, others, for great business talents and experience. The results were .two resolutions; one affirming the desirability of establishing a Hospital for sick Children in Birmingham, the other appointing a nume- rous and highly influential provisional Committee for the purpose of carrying the foregoing resolution into effect. Of the speakers was Mr. 6. S. Lloyd, who took upon him- self the somewhat unpleasant, but independent, honourable and useful function of sprinkling a few dry, hard, and pointed facts over the soft parterre of flowers so profusely strewed about by the preceding speakers, and particularly by Dr. T. P. Heslop who, towards the close of a speech delivered with a politic reticence calling for congratulation, and in a manner