Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary / by John Poland.

  • Poland, John, 1855-1937
Date:
1898
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary / by John Poland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by UCL Library Services. The original may be consulted at UCL (University College London)

    51/368 page 29
    5th October, 1792, 152 Governors attended for the purpose of electing a Collector to the Charity. Again in 1828 we find as many as 179 Governors, besides proxies, attending some of the meetings. This is strangely in contrast with the present day. The attendance of Governors at the Annual Meetings is now (1893) far from being a large one, unless some special matter is brought forward. Mr. H. C. Burdett ( Hospitals and Asylums of the World, vol. ii., 1893, p. 67) remarks upon the difficulty experienced in inducing a quorum of Governors of the voluntary hospitals to attend the annual meetings :— The late Canon Miller, D.D., the founder of Hospital Sunday, said, with much truth and some humour, that it was hopeless to expect a full meeting of Governors at any Hospital unless the managers were able to provide for their delec- tation an election, or a rumpus, or some subject for discussion which excited much feeling and great differences of opinion at the date of its introduction. The several meetings of the Charity were held at the Roman Eagle up to October, 1795, and for an uncertain number of years beyond. The severity of the winter of 1794-5 added to the increased expenses of every article of
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3