Report of the sub-committee appointed to consider the means by which the abuses of the Out-Patient Department of General Hospitals may best be remedied / [A. Meadows and others.

Date:
1870
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Credit: Report of the sub-committee appointed to consider the means by which the abuses of the Out-Patient Department of General Hospitals may best be remedied / [A. Meadows and others. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    contribute for the services they require in proportion to their means. The Sub-committee would observe, that never were the evils of indiscriminate charity, of which the hospital out-patient ad- ministration is one of the most mischievous examples, more acutely felt. Societies are springing up with the express object of assisting such reforms as we have ventured to pro- pose. And if the medical profession would unite earnestly and firmly in the completion of a well devised scheme of reform, the Sub-committee believe that it would command the support of all philanthropists who desire to raise the standard of self-help and independence amongst the labouring poor. (Signed) A. Meadows, M.D., Chairman. Francis Anstie, M.D. Christopher Heath, F.R.C.S. W. F. Teevan, F.R.C.S. F. I. Gant, F.E.O.S. J. H. Stallard, M.B., Honorary Secretary.