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

  • Rogers, Joseph, 1820 or 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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    confined, I was debarred from attendance on her, and could not claim any fee. The master and clerk arranged that no order should be given until nine days had elapsed, when it was held that I was bound to take charge of the woman as in an ordinary case of illness. This calling one in on the morning of the tenth day was so frequently done that I saw that the thing was arranged, especially as I learned on in- quiry that the woman had been ill for some days, and had asked that I should be sent for. I there- upon took on myself to visit the ward daily, and to judge for myself as to the necessity for my attend- ance. Some half-dozen of these cases occurred within three months. On sending notice to the clerk that I had visited such and such a case, I received the reply: “‘I have made inquiries and find that you attended without getting the neces- sary authority.” This I afterwards learned was done without any authority from the Board. I therefore decided that I would give up going into this ward for the future. Some time after, and in pursuance of this man’s policy of annoyance, a case occurred just as I ex- pected, which enabled me to get rid of him. On going to the House one morning, the porter told me there was a woman ill in the lying-in ward. On
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