Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1923.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Date:
1923
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1923. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    President’s Report The Board of Incorporators acknowledges with gratitude the gifts that have been made to the hospital, aggregat¬ ing for the year $42,341.05, as itemized in the Treasurer’s Report, and including $10,000 from the estate of Philip H. Gray to establish a fund for the furtherance of Neuro- Surgery; $7,833.33 anonymous gift to the Surgeon-in- Chief’s Fund; $8,000 from the children of Walter Hunne- well for the establishment of a memorial free bed, to be known as the Walter Hunnewell Free Bed; $5,000 from Miss Aimee Lamb to establish a free bed in memory of Mrs. Winthrop Sargent; $1,000 from Mr. Theodore Lyman to establish a free bed fund; $2,812.50 from the Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund, Incorporated; $1,360.20 from the Surdna Foundation for the study of eczema; $1,200 from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., through the New England Deaconess Association, for the benefit of diabetic patients; $5,037 through the Ladies’ Social Service Committee for the Social Service De¬ partment. The volumes that have been given to the Library have been especially helpful. Books of light fiction are con¬ stantly in use, being moved on wheeled tables from ward to ward throughout the day. After these first few years of the life of this hospital, during which a system equivalent to a full-time service of doctors and surgeons has been maintained, it may be confidently stated that the system has proved to be suc¬ cessful, and especially successful in that the sick residents of Suffolk County have never been offered more careful attention of a high scientific standard than the poor of Suffolk County are now receiving at this hospital. In