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.

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    had oil various occasions experienced, in not having liad these defects remedied by repre- sentations, which they themselves had made to the Managers ; partly in that distance at which the Medical Officers, as a body, are well known to have been always kept by the Managers ; and partly also in the mutual jealousies of these Offi- cers as to the influence which they should re- spectively possess, directly or indirectly, in the management of the Infii’mary. The necessity of being obliged to communicate with the Ma- nagers by written statements, and the ignorance in which they were kept of the manner in which their statements would be received and treated, have often, I believe, prevented the Medical Offi- cers, both as a body and as individuals, from making communications to the Managers, that could not have failed to have had the most bencr ficial effects upon the character of the Infirmary, and of improving the condition of the sick poor admitted into it. Had a free and independent intercourse existed between the Medical Officers and Managers of the Infirmaiy, no defect or er- ror of importance could have been permitted to exist for any length of time in the domestic ma-