Letter to the General Court of Contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, containing observations on the minutes of evidence, and on the report of the committee ... / by a contributor.

Date:
1818
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Credit: Letter to the General Court of Contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, containing observations on the minutes of evidence, and on the report of the committee ... / by a contributor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    want of proper method in the management of the affairs of the house ; in her en'oneous ideas of do- mestic economy, and the obstinacy with which she persisted in them; and in her want of all proper in- tercourse with the Nurses, and control over their conduct. There is every reason to believe that Mrs Montgomery was a woman of strict integrity; but all I have learned with regard to her tends to prove that she was a person of limited capa- city, and one in whose mind a narrow economy seems to have held the place of other virtues not less necessary and proper in the Matron of a great Hospital. Her conduct in the Infirmary contrasts in but too many particulars with that of a fonner Matron, towhose character Dr Hamilton has borne so honourable a testimony. There are many who must .remember well the daily visits which Mrs Rennie made through the wards of the Infirmary; her unceasing efforts to add to the comforts of the patients ; the tenderness with which she enqui- red into the circumstances of those who appear- ed to be in peculiar distress ; the numberless lit- tle acts of kindness which she performed to them; the strict charge which she took of the character and conduct of the Nurses ; her friend-