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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    My DEAii Sir, You asked me to-day “ what is the scheme which I desire the Governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary just now to adopt.^’ I told you that I have no one fixed scheme, for it is not my duty, not being on the Board of Management, to prepare any plan unsolicited. 1 shall support, as far as I am able, any plans which seem to me likely to conduce to the permanent in- terests of the Institution; and I shall do all that I law- fully may, to oppose any which seem to me inconsistent with those interests. When I speak of those interests, I include the wants of the sick of this district in the widest sense, and the just claims of the supporters of a most valuable institu- tion. In speaking of the sick and of the supporters I speak, I need not say, of the sick who require Hospital help, whether in this city or in counties which surround it; in speaking of the supporters I should wish to think with equal fairness of our friends in the County, the University, and the City. I cannot, you are aware, be at the Court on the 17th of May, having been for some time previously engaged to attend a meeting of importance elsewhere on the same afternoon. This is my misfortune. I take this method, therefore, of putting shortly before you what I under- stand to be at stake in the present controversy, both as regards the principles of Hospital administration, and the interests of the Charity to which we are both attached. Two questions involving important administrative