A letter to Lord Aberdare, chairman of the Managing Committee of the Hospital for Sick Children / by Charles West.

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898.
Date:
1887
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Credit: A letter to Lord Aberdare, chairman of the Managing Committee of the Hospital for Sick Children / by Charles West. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    55, Habley Street, W. October 15th, 1887. My Lord, I took the liberty, on the 1st of August last, of addressing a short letter to your Lordship, in which I ven- tured to express a doubt as to the expediency of some of those proposals which are embodied in the last Eeport of the Managing Committee of the Hospital for Sick Children, and which were adopted with acclamation at the Anniversary Festival in May. On considering the subject carefully, the questions which those proposals involved, seemed to me to be too important to admit of their adoption or rejection without the most careful inquiry. I therefore addressed, either in English or in French, the subjoined questions to the Senior Medical Officers of all the general Children's Hospitals in Europe, eighty-one in number, and beg leave to submit for your consideration as Chairman, and for that of the other members of the Managing Com- mittee, the answers which, down to the present time, I have received from fifty. The answers, which are given verbatim, are tabulated for convenience of reference, and will at any rate enable the Committee to come to a conclusion, with a knowledge of the subject which I venture to doubt ■whether they hitherto have possessed.