Report : 1917 / Middlesex Hospital.

  • Middlesex Hospital
Date:
1917
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Credit: Report : 1917 / Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been loyally supported by the Matron, Miss Morgan, and all the members of the Nursing Staff, who have ably borne the heavy burden imposed upon them. We have pride in the knowledge that from the outbreak of the War until the end of 1917 the Hospital and its Branch Hospital have been responsible for the treatment of 8,281 wounded men, 6,950 of whom were dealt with at the Branch Hospital. Our thanks are due to Messrs. Schweppe, who supply gratuitously all the syphon soda water required for the patients ; to Messrs. W. E. and F. Faulkner who have kept the soldiers regularly supplied with tobacco and cigarettes, and to many thoughtful friends who have, from time to time, forwarded various other gifts in kind. We are most grateful to the British Bed Cross Society, the St. Marylebone War Hospital Supply Depot, and Queen Mary’s Needle¬ work Guild for valuable gifts of stores for the benefit of the soldiers under our care. The Ladies’ Work Society, under the Presidency of the Dowager Countess of Derby, continues to afford us most valuable assistance. Notwithstanding the additional calls which have been made upon their time the members are still mindful of the welfare of our patients, for whom the usual number of garments have been delivered. We are most grateful to the Society for their kindness and generosity. We have also to thank the Dowager Countess of Derby for a generous gift of clothing for the babies in the Maternity Wards, and for her kindness in contributing £55 8s. 3d. towards the maintenance of the Bird Ward. We also desire to express our deep appreciation of the valuable help we have received from voluntary workers in various departments of the Hospital and to pay a special tribute to the spirit which has been shown by those ladies who attend daily in the Operating Theatre, and convey the patients from and to the wards. We have to record our deep regret at the death of His Boyal Highness the Prince Christian, a Vice-President of the Hospital. We have to record with profound regret the death of Mr. Arthur James, M.V.O., a Vice-President of the Hospital. Mr. James regularly attended the meetings of the Weekly Board and took a keen interest in every branch of the Hospital’s work. He was a generous and liberal subscriber to its funds, and every scheme which was introduced for the improvement of the Hospital’s service, received his sympathetic support. The memorial which he established to his brother, the late Mr. William James, in the form of a Trust Fund of £20,000—the income of which is applied to research work into the cause of cancer, was but one instance of his munificence and indicates the generous spirit in which he sought to encourage and strengthen the develop¬ ment of the Charity. We have also to deplore the loss of Lt.-Col. T. Lambert Mears, M.A., LL.D., who joined the Weekly Board in the year 1895. He was an expert in legal and financial matters and for many years, as an honorary auditor, exercised most careful supervision over the
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