Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, and such disorders as may depend upon a rheumatic or gouty diathesis ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1893 ; medical report and statistics, management, history, annual statement, accounts, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785 ; copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the seventh Duke of Devonshire to the trustees ; and meteorological report for the year 1893.
- Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, and such disorders as may depend upon a rheumatic or gouty diathesis ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1893 ; medical report and statistics, management, history, annual statement, accounts, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785 ; copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the seventh Duke of Devonshire to the trustees ; and meteorological report for the year 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
![Recommendations are available only during the year for which they are issued. Forms of recommendation will be sent by the Secretary on appUcation. 5. —Persons not being Annual or Life Subscribers, may recommend an In-Patient on payment of a Casual Subscription, £2 12s. 8d.; and Life or Annual Subscribers may recommend additional Patients, beyond the number they are entitled to recommend annually, on payment of a casual Subscription with each. 4.—Subscribers of One Guinea per annum are allowed to send, in addition to the Patient elif^ible from the Subscription, three Out-Patients per annum, by payine Seven Shillings with each. ^ 6. —Any Clergyman or Minister kindly preaching a Sermon or Sermons, on any one day in aid of the Funds of the Hospital, and contributing therefrom not less than £3, shall be entitled to one In or four Out-Patients' recommendations. No money shall be received as a Subscription which can in any %vay be regarded as the proceeds of any public collection, or offertory, in any place of worship- but all such sums shall be received as Donations, with the privileges defined in this rule. 6. —When not occupied under the powers of the Governors of the Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund, any of the 150 beds so assigned are available to Patients recommended by Subscribers, on payment of the cost per Patient to the Hospital, less the one guinea subscribed, or JEI lis. 6d, 7. —Visitors to the Hospital are particularly requested not to interfere between the Patients and Medical staff under whom they are placed. 8J—No Patient can be admitted without producmg a meoicalcertificate specifyingthe nature of the disease, and certifying that the Patient has not been erposed to the influence of Infectious or Contagious Disease during the four weeks previous to his or her admission. 9.—^Persons suffering from any incurable or infectious disorder or from advanced heart disease—women more than six months advanced in pregnancy—persons in the later stage of consumption—or afflicted with itch, cutaneous disease, ulcers, fits, or insanity—or infested with vermin—cannot be admitted as In-Patients; or, if inadvertently admitted, cannot be allowed to remain. The Annual Eeport and List of Subscribers, price 3d., by post 4d., may be had on application to the Secretary, Mr. Joseph Taylob, Devonshire Hospital, Buxton, to whom all communications should be addressed. Cheques and Post Office Orders to be made payable to the Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Limited, Buxton, Treasurers of the Hospital. FORM OF BEQUEST OF LEGACY. To those who may be inclined to be Benefactors to this Institution, of Personal Property, by Will, the following form is recommended :— I give and hequeaih the sum of pounds [free from Legacy Duty'] unto the ''Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity!' at Buxton, to he paid [with the Legacy Duty thereon] exclusively out of such part of my estate as may be legally bequeathed for charitable purposes, and in priority to all other parjments thereout; and I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer, for the time being, of that Institution, shall be a sufficient discharge for the said Legacy. 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24768443_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
