A letter to the vice-chairman of the Board of Management of the Radcliffe Infirmary on the questions to be considered at the meetings summoned for May 17 & 31, 1866 / [Henry W. Acland].

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1866
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Credit: A letter to the vice-chairman of the Board of Management of the Radcliffe Infirmary on the questions to be considered at the meetings summoned for May 17 & 31, 1866 / [Henry W. Acland]. 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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    bless it. They would come—and the cases in the Town would dimmish. I said at the outset I had no scheme. But as I write I seem forced to suggest one. It is simple. Leave the old building as it is. Build a good ward for fifteen or sixteen males, and the same for females, in the Garden, in the best manner, that is, on the pavilion model, with a Corridor running along the North side of our grounds. The Lancashire money, with your own, and what j'ou might have to-morrow, will build such a block, without touching the funds of the House. Your Hospital, by expanding instead of contracting, will get fresh life, with all the advantages to the dis- trict which are implied by the presence of an active Hospital. Those who have heartily laboured for it in so many ways, both within and without, will take new courage in seeing their work prosper. I have written already at too great length. Yet the subject might well occupy us a far longer time. The country is becoming alive to the importance of its sanitary arrangements. Public opinion will support your endeavours. The more voluntary institutions do, the more they act with open hand and heart, the less there will be to be supplemented by enactment, the less they will have to dread the loss of funds. But we must all hope that if we leave ground uncovered, legislation will step in to supply the needs which we do not meet. In the last few years the works on Militar)'- and Civil Hospitals by our Government officers, by Miss Nightingale, M. Husson, Mr. Simon, and others, have become so numerous and are so exhaustive, that you, Sir, may be sure that acting under skilled advice, and