Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, and such disorders as may depend upon a rheumatic or gouty diathesis ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1899 ; medical report and statistics, management, history, annual statement, accounts, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785 ; copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the seventh Duke of Devonshire to the trustees ; and meteorological report for the year 1899.
- Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)
- Date:
- 1900
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Credit: Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, and such disorders as may depend upon a rheumatic or gouty diathesis ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1899 ; medical report and statistics, management, history, annual statement, accounts, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785 ; copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the seventh Duke of Devonshire to the trustees ; and meteorological report for the year 1899. 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.
![Reconimendations are available only duriiiR the year for which ihey are issued Forms of recommeudation will be sent by the Secretary on applicaUon. 3-—I'ersons not being Annual or Life Subscribers, may recommend an lu-Patieut on payment of a Casual Subscription, £i 12s. d.; nud Life or Annual Subscribers may recommend additional Patients, beyond the number tn«y are entitled to recommend annually, on payment of a casual Subscription vnth each. 4.—Subscribers of One Guinea per annum are allowed to send, in addition to the Patient eligible from the Subscription, three Out-Patients per annum, by paying Seven Shillings with each. 6.—Any Clergyman or Minister kindly preaching a Sermon or Sermons, on any one day in aid of the Funds of the Hospital, and contributing therefrom not less than £3 shall be entitled to one In or four Out-Patients' recommendations. No money shall be received as a Subscription which can in any way be regarded as the proceeds of any public collection, or offertory, in any place of worship; but all such sums shall be received as Donations, with the privileges defined in this rule. 6. —When not occupied under the powers of the Governors of the Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund, any of the 150 beds so assigned are available to Patients recommended by Subscribers, on payment of the cost per Patient to the Hospital, less the one guinea bubscribed, or £1 lis. 6d. 7. —Visitors to the Hospital are particularly requested not to interfere between the Patients and Medical staff under whom they are placed. 8. —No Patient can be admitted without producing a meoical certificate specifying the nature of the disease, and certifying that the Patient has not been exposed to the influence of Infectious or Contagious Disease during the six weeks previous to his or her admission. 9. —Persons suffering from any incurable or infectious disorder or from advanced heart dist-nse—women more than six months advanced in pregnancy—persons in the later stage of consumption—or afflicted with itch, cutaneous disease, ulcers, fits, or insanity—or infested with vermin—cannot be admitted as In-Fatients; or, if inadvertently admitted, cannot be allowed to remain. The Annual Report and List of Subscribers, price 3d., by post 4d., may be had on application to the Secretary, Mr. .Ioseph Taylob, Devonshire Hospital, Buxton, to whom all communications should be addressed. Cheques and Post Office Orders to be made payable to th« Sheffield and Ritherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Limited, Buxton, Treasurers of the Hospital. FORM OF BEQUEST OF LEGACY. To those who may be inclined to be Benefactors to this Institution, of Personal Property, by Will, the following form is recommended :— / give and bequeath the sum of potnids [free from Legacy Duty] unto the '-Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity at Buxton, to be paid [with the Legacy Duty thereon] exclusively out of such part of my estate as may be legally bequeathed for charitable puiposes, and in priority to all other payments thereout; and I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer, for the time being, of that Institution, shall he a sufficient discharge for the said Legacy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24768509_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
