Village hospitals / Andrew Wynter.

  • Wynter, Andrew, 1819-1876.
Date:
[1866]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Village hospitals / Andrew Wynter. 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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    1>eer, and other diet only by spe ial order of the medical officer. “Medicines arc supplied by a druggist in the village at the rate of 3s. 6d. per case admitted. “The rent is 12'. per annum, in addition to interest on money (the produce of a bazaar) ex- pended in alterations. There are four sleep- ing rooms, one convalescent room, a kitchen, a committee-room (with dark-closet for ophthalmo- scopic examinations, &c.), in which out patients are seen and prescribed for every Monday from. 10 to 12. There is also a nurse’s room and bath- room, in the latter of which are a hot and ’oold bath (supplied by a force pump from the back I kitchen below), and a shower bath and a vapour bath.” Mr. Moore was most ably seconded in his efforts by the Roy. C. W. Payne Crawford, who afterwards removed to East Grinstead, and afforded invaluable support to the founder in the establishment of that Cranlcy Village Hospital. hospital ; thus illustrating the value of clerical aid when given with a wilL 'The East Grinstead Hos- pital has indeed had a great fight for it, and had it not been for the determination of Dr. Rogers and his worthy coadjutor, it would probably have fared ' but lxidly. It was the fourth established in order of date, and is a little more pretentious in ap- pearance—as will be seen by the accompanying pho- i tograph (sec p. 353)—than the Cranlcy model, but it retains all the characteristics of a Surrey cottage of ^ the letter class, with the addition of a spacious room at the back of the house, amply lighted by ' two largo windows. This addition was made at the expense of its founder. Dr. Rogers. The poor rustic brought here in his hour of trouble must look upon it os a little paradise, surrounded as it is by its well of llowcrs, the culture of which appears to be the hobby of the Doctor. This hospital makes up seveu j beds, and its working expenses are pretty much the same as those at Crawley. The report for the year ending 1S65 is now on our talde, from which we gather that during the last year, thirty-four cases were treated, against which we find the result “well” recorded in the great majority of cases. [ The receipts and expenditure of this hospital for the year 1SC5, arc equally satisfactory with those of the Cranley Hospital Rrcnpta. balance at the Bankers, Jan. 1, 1865 . Donations and Subcriptiona Pnvmdttw by Patients Collceting-bnx ftt Hospital £ $. d. 80 12 4 76 12 6 I 33 12 0 I 2 7 6