Annual report : 1926 / St. Mary's Hospital.

  • St. Mary's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1926
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Credit: Annual report : 1926 / St. Mary's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £ Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Drabble (“ In memory of George Wilkinson Drabble and Isabel Jemima Drabble ”). 1,000 Mrs. David Shennan (“ To the dear memory of Margaret Parish ”). 1,000 The Executors of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn .(“ The Elizabeth Dunn Cot ”) ... ... 500 Mr. and Mrs. H. Mitchell (To commemorate the love for little children and cheery work and influence of Constance Elizabeth Mitchell ”)—1st instalment 125 Old Patients’ Association Cot, 1926 ... ... 500 The endowment of a Cot by the Old Patients’ Association is of particular interest. The Association was founded in 1921. Membership is limited to former patients of the Hospital who undertake to make a minimum annual subscrip¬ tion of 5s. The object of the Association is to raise a sum of £3,000 so that two beds (one male and one female) and two cots (one boy and one girl) may be endowed. The Board of Manage¬ ment value very highly this token of affection and recognition from their old patients, and congratulate the Association on having completed the first stage of their welcome effort. A very successful Dance, organized by Mrs. Gaskell Jacobs and Miss Margaret C. Smith in aid of the Sunlight and Electro-Therapeutic Department, was held at the Suffolk Galleries on 27th February, when a sum of over £260 was received, part of which was spent in equipment urgently required for the immediate needs of the Department. A Boxing Tournament, organized once again by those very good friends of the Hospital—The Sportsmen’s Appeal Committee—and held at the National Sporting Club, resulted in an amount of £334 for the General Funds of the Hospital. The Board of Management fully realize that the Committee have had to contend with exceptional difficulties this year and regard this substantial donation as a very satisfactory result of the Committee’s efforts. Since the Sportsmen’s Appeal was inaugurated in 1922, the total sum paid to