Annual report of the Liverpool Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest : 1945.

  • Liverpool Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.
Date:
1945
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Credit: Annual report of the Liverpool Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest : 1945. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mrs. M. Beresford- Jones Mr. R. S. Harker. Mrs. N. G. Demetriadi. Honorary Assistant Physician. Medical Stipendiary. Sanatorium. Improve¬ ments. Mr. R. S. Harker. The Board have accepted with regret the resignation of Mrs. M. Beresford-Jones, who during her term on the Board rendered useful service, particularly to the Sanatorium. The serious illness towards the close of the year of Mr. R. S. Harker, the Honorary Treasurer, not only deprived the Board of his valuable services but gave them grave personal anxiety. Mrs. N. G. Demetriadi, who performed valuable work during the war as County Superintendent of the Cheshire Branch of the British Red Cross, has accepted an invitation to join the vSanatorium Ladies’ Committee. Dr. I. Ansell, who temporarily filled the post of Honorary Assistant Physician to the Hospital, was called up for military service ; Dr. V. K. Summers, M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., has been appointed as Deputy. The death of Dr. John Graham, who served the Hospital as Medical Stipendiary since October, 1941, is recorded with profound regret. The vacancy thus created has been filled temporarily by the appointment of Dr. F. Earlam, M.D., M.R.C.S., M.R.C.P., recently returned from H.M. Forces. In view of the urgent necessity for the extension of the Nurses’ Home, a further application has been made to the Ministry of Health for a license to proceed with this work. Meanwhile as a temporary measure, some of the night nurses are utilising one of the cottages for sleeping accommodation. During the war much needed alterations and improvements were held up but it has now been possible to contract for the installation of kitchen equipment and labour saving devices required to modernise the kitchen, which it is hoped will be completed at an early date. The Board are fully alive to the importance of having a happy and contented staff, and everything is and will be done to provide amenities with this object in view. The subsequent death of Mr. Harker on the 20th February, 1946, was greatly deplored by the Board of Management. He had been Honorary Treasurer of the Hospital since April, 1929, and it is impossible to pay too great a tribute to his services to the Hospital over so many years. See Footnote