Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1935.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Date:
1935
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1935. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report of the PhysiciarvirvChief I he year 1935 has witnessed continuation of the nu¬ merous economies in the expense of Hospital operation planned during the preceding year, and other ones have been instituted. Unfortunately the result of these economies is not as evident in reducing our annual deficit as we had hoped, for the simple reason that much, that we have saved by economies, has been used up in paying the increased cost of nearly everything that we use. The welfare of a hospital is closely interwoven into the condition of the country and its administration. Changes that are deliberately made, as well as those that are spontaneous in origin, react and interact so that once started their effects seem never to end. As a result of the continued depression endowed hospitals all over our land have had to run on restricted budgets, and none can say that this has been advantageous to their major aims, the care of the sick and the investigation of disease. The momentum of better days so far has warded off stagnation; the willingness of administration and staff of hospitals to do with less has maintained reason¬ able efficiency in work. However, the time is approach¬ ing when plants must be repaired, renewed or replaced in large measure, and when the stimulus of new under¬ takings will be needed to maintain efficiency of work and the esprit de corps of staff, particularly of the younger members, on whom is to fall in a relatively short time the duty of determining the future position of endowed hospitals. Every effort must be made to pass on to them a physical set-up certainly no less perfect and no less suited to its work than was the one which we of the older group received. [62]