Annual report : 1944.

  • London Homœopathic Hospital
Date:
1944
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1944. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LONDON HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL NINETY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT AND AUDITED ACCOUNTS For the Year ending December 315/, 1944 The Board announce with deep regret the death on Novem¬ ber 1st, 1944, of Mr. Edward Clifton-Brown, who had been a member of the Board of Management for 49 years and Chairman since 1929. In recording this sad event the Board at their meeting on November 23rd, 1944, unanimously passed the following resolution : ‘ ‘ That the Board of Management do hereby place on record their very deep regret at the death of their Chairman, Mr. Edward Clifton-Brown and they desire to express their deepest sympathy with his family in their loss. Introduced to the Hospital at an early age by his parents, the late Colonel and Mrs. J. Clifton-Brown themselves ardent homoeopaths, Edward Clifton-Brown joined the Board in the year 1895 at the early age of 25. Notwithstanding the many and varied business interests which he later assumed, the Hospital quickly secured a sure place in his affections and found in him a worthy and successful advocate of the cause for which it laboured. The Hospital’s progressive policy which in the following years led to many improvements and an extension of its buildings, was vigorously pursued by Mr. Clifton- Brown when in 1929 he became the Chairman in succession to the late Mr. R. Henryson Caird. During his term of office the Hospital received the distinction of Royal Patronage and became elevated to the front rank of London Voluntary Hospitals by an increase in bed accommodation for patients to 200. He bore the additional responsibilities and trials of the war years from 1939 uncomplainingly and with great fortitude and with characteristic optimism he was planning, just previous to his death, the rebuilding of the East Wing of the Hospital as part of a post-war programme of recon¬ struction.
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