[Fundraising appeals].

  • Leeds General Infirmary.
Date:
[1900?]
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Credit: [Fundraising appeals]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The General Infirmary at Leeds. For a considerable time the increasing list of patients awaiting admission to the Infirmary for operations and medical treatment has been a constant source of worry and anxiety to the Board, especially as many of these cases are of a serious type where delay in treatment is most dangerous, and must often prove fatal. This list has at one period exceeded 1,600 patients, and is rarely under 1,000 at any time. One of the most serious results due to the lack of accommodation is the large number of cases of hernia and hemoroids, which cannot be treated properly, causing, as it does, loss of work and wages to so many who can ill afford it. If these cases could be treated as they occur, not alone would a great deal of suffering be avoided, but the patients would be back at their usual employment, earning money instead of, as at present, being more or less a charge upon the community. The Board have given the most careful consideration to the needs and requirements of the Infirmary, to enable the staff to deal with the above long list of waiting cases, and have decided it is urgently necessary to make the most strenuous efforts to provide the additional accommodation required, so that these patients may have at least a chance of being restored to a reasonable state of health. The Leeds Infirmary has an almost world-wide reputation for the treatment of disease, and has been instrumental in producing many of the most eminent medical and surgical specialists in the history of the profession. It has a close connection with the Medical School, which is part of the University, the Medical School being, in fact, older than the University itself. The Infirmary is now the principal teaching centre of the surgical and medical science in Yorkshire, if not of the whole of England outside London. The Infirmary and the Ida and Robert Arthington branches at