Appeal on behalf of the proposed Hospital for Scik Children in Edinburgh.

  • Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Date:
[1859]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Appeal on behalf of the proposed Hospital for Scik Children in Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of comfort and safety for the sufferer at home. The true ques- tion with the others, and with the sole fitting class of inmates, must too frequently be, whether there shall be a short part- ing, with an easily reached source of hope through the sooth- ing attentions, and healthful and reviving influences, in the refuge of the children’s hospital; or whether the parting shall be for ever, and the refuge the grave. Yet, even with the most destitute, there will be many cases which need not enter the wards of the institution, and can be efficiently treated as out-patients: while the nursling, above all, would thus find its fittest attention, for it could seldom be prudently, in what may be often a choice of evils, separated from the mother; and to receive both as a united charge into the hospital would, though it may become advisable as an ex- ception, prove too heavy a burden as a rule. The design of the proposed institution may be shortly noted as follows :— I. To provide for the reception, maintenance, and medical treatment of the children of the poor, during sickness, within a cheerfully and salubriously placed building, having such adjuncts of open garden and playground attached as are everywhere recognised to be peculiarly necessary to estab- lish the fragile health in the early periods of life; and to furnish with advice and medicine, as out-patients, others whom it may be unnecessary or impracticable to receive into the hospital. II. To promote the advancement of medical science with reference to the diseases of childhood, by permitting these to be studied where grouped in sufficient numbers, and thus brought into close relation to each other under the observa- tion of those who arc willing to devote to them a particular attention; and especially to provide for the more efficient