Rules of the Sheffield Public Dispensary : as amended and passed at the Twenty-Second General Meeting of Governors, held the 5th of July, 1854, and published by order of the Governors.

  • Sheffield Public Dispensary.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Rules of the Sheffield Public Dispensary : as amended and passed at the Twenty-Second General Meeting of Governors, held the 5th of July, 1854, and published by order of the Governors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not resign his office without giving notice of his intention, in writing, two months previous, to the Weekly Board. PATIENTS. XLI.—The patients shall be of two descriptions—out- patients and home-patients; the former shall bring their recommendations to the Dispensary on every day in the week, (Sundays excepted) between the hours of ten and eleven in the forenoon, and shall continue to attend at the same hour, as often as their Medical attendant shall direct; the latter shall send their recommendations between the same hours, and they shall then be visited by the Physician or Surgeon, who shall continue his attendance as often as he thinks it requisite. On Sundays the Dispensary shall only he open from nine till ten o’clock in the morning, and from four till five o’clock in the afternoon, except for cases of accident and sudden emergency. XLII.—When a patient has once been admitted under the care of one of the Medical Officers, he shall continue under the same until he is discharged, and shall not be entitled to admission, for the same complaint, under any of the other Medical Officers, in less than three months, without the consent of the Physician or Surgeon under whose care he was first placed. XLIII.—Patients whose cases admit of relief, and who may wish to remain on the books for a longer time than three months, shall, at the expiration of that period, he required to renew their tickets. XLIY.—All persons must furnish themselves with clean phials and gallipots, or deposit sixpence at the
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