Joseph Rogers, M. D : Reminiscences of a workhouse medical officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers.

  • Rogers, Joseph, 1821-1889.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Joseph Rogers, M. D : Reminiscences of a workhouse medical officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Some time after I received a notice to attend, when I found Mr. Kichard Griffin and Dr. Fowler in the room. Griffin had come there with evidence that would have taken a month to take down. Fowler was not so diffuse, a couple of days would have got through what he had to say. Appalled by the vast body of evidence offered by these two, the Committee ordered the room to be cleared ; on our re-admission we learned that the Committee had decided that Mr. Griffin and Dr. Fowler should put in their evidence, which should be taken as if delivered. I was then called on. I had neither note nor paper, as I relied on Mr. Farnall's promise. The questions were mainly put by Mr. Yilliers. I amplified briefly the views I had expressed to Mr. Farnall. This led to my being asked for some additional explanations, which I supplied. Ulti- mately I was dismissed, but not before I had convinced myself that my day's work had not been thrown away. Poor Pdchard Griffin had worked for many years with wonderful industiy to call attention to the grievances of Poor Law medica] officers, and thought he should succeed. But he was destined to fail, for although the Committee had allowed him to put in his evidence, yet the facts he had collected with so much pains were successfully traversed by
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