Annual report of the Medical College of Bengal : fourteenth year, session 1848-49 / under the immediate control and superintendence of the Council of Education.
- Medical College of Bengal
- Date:
- 1849
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical College of Bengal : fourteenth year, session 1848-49 / under the immediate control and superintendence of the Council of Education. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![The interview was granted, and the whole subject discussed Videv 13 No IV A length with Sir John Grant, who Appendix K. to Third admitted that the funds at his disposal Report of Municipal and Were not adequate to erect and main- Fever Hospital Commit- tain a separate Hospital; but that it would be necessary to ascertain the views of Government, before any proposal for the disposal of the funds could be entertained. In the event of the Go- vernment declining to assist the Committee, he was disposed to concur in Dr. Mouat's opinion, that the only means of employ- ing the funds profitably and properly would be by expending them in adding to some existing Hospital. He mentioned, however that, as a prior proposition of a similar natui-e had been made by the Governors of the Native Hospital, it would require to be disposed of, before Dr. Mouat's proposal of building an addition to the Medical College Hospital could be entertained. On the 26th of April 1844, Sir John Grant addressed the Secretary to the Medical College, mentioning the steps taken up to that time, and the refusal of the u^p. lit' ^' ^' Government to contribute to the pro- posed object, with other matters, end- ing with an enquiry, whether if the money at their (the Committee's) disposal were expended in the erection of a large Native Hospital or Fever Ward adjoining the Medical College, the Officers of that Institution would undertake to afford to the patients which such ward was capable of receiving, the requisite supplies of provisions and medicines, medical and other attendance necessary to their treatment. This proposal was submitted to the Professors of the College, who consented at once to afford every cf^h Ma^^i84'/p^i5 ^'^^ attendance required, and the op. cit. '^^ ' Government, when applied to, agreed to No. IV. D., No. 343 of provide the medicine and establishment nth July 1S44 p. 15, and jf ^^le funds were disposed of in the No. IV. D., p. 16, op. cit. i- J manner mentioned. On the 6th of August 1844, Dr. Mouat announced the pre- sentation of a piece of ground by Baboo No. IV. C, No. 400 p. 16. ]viuttyloll Seal, as a site for the proposed Hospital, provided the funds for its erection were placed at tlie disposal of the College. To this Sir P. 16., op. cit. j^Ym Grant replied that, so soon as the plan is finally approved by the Council of Education and Municipal Committee, the funds at the credit of the latter, m](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24766823_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
