Report : 1927 / Children's Hospital, Cold Ash.

Children's Hospital, Cold Ash (Newbury, England)

Date:: 1927

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report : 1927 / Children's Hospital, Cold Ash. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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AT COLD ASH, NEWBURY. IRules. THIS Hospital is established for the benefit of poor Children requiring skilled nursing combined with country air. Though specially intended and adapted for the treatment of children suffering from tubercular affections of the bones and joints, its benefits are not exclusively confined to such cases. Suitable cases, either from a distance or from the immediate neighbourhood, are eligible for admission. Children suffering from fits, or infectious, contagious, or incurable diseases, are not eligible. Children who have not been, and wrhose parents or guardians are unwilling that they should be vaccinated cannot be admitted. Rule 1.—Management. 1.—The management of the Hospital and the administration of its property shall be carried out by a Committee consisting of not less than nine members (who shall be subscribers of at least half-a-guinea each), elected by the subscribers at the Annual General Meeting. One third of the Committee shall retire annually ; those to retire, unless otherwise agreed, being deter¬ mined by lot. Retiring members shall be eligible for re-election. The Trustees, Treasurer and Medical Officers shall, in addition, be ex-ojjicio members of the Committee. Three shall form a quorum, and any casual vacancy or vacancies in the Committee or the Officers may be filled up by the Committee. 2.—The Committee shall appoint the Matron and Medical Staff. The appointment of Nurses and domestic staff, and the general control of the work in the Hospital, shall be in the hands of the Matron, subject to the supervision of the Committee.