Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![Hospital Construction and Management. Section I. By FREDERIC ]. MOUAT, M.D., F.R.C.S. INTRODUCTION. SINCE the institutions devoted to the relief of the suffering from disease and accidents have ceased to possess an ecclesiastical character, and become what they now are, and long have been, part and parcel of the general pratftice of charity and benevolence in their purest forms, Hospitals, with special reference to the successful treatment of those admitted within their walls, have scarcely kept pace in their con- struction and management, with the advance of civilisation in other branches of social economy. The present system of treatment of disease in public institutions in this country has not yet been two centuries in existence, as the following table, taken from Dr. Steele’s Essay on the Mortality in Hospitals,® shows, viz. :— Hospitals. Date of Foundation. Hospitals. Date of Foundation. HOSPITALS. Date of Foundation. London:— Bristol 1735 Nottingham 1782 Westminster 1719 Edinburgh 1736 Canterbury 1793 Guy’s 1723 Windsor 1736 Dundee 1795 St. George's 1733 Aberdeen 1739 Stafford 1795 London 1740 Northampton 1743 Middlesex I745 Exeter 1745 Irish :— Manchester 1753 Jervis Street 1726 Special Hospitals. Chester 1755 Steevens’ 1733 British Lying-in 1749 Newcastle 1757 Meners’ 1734 City of London Lying-in 1750 Glasgow 1794 The Meath 1756 Queen Charlotte’s] Norwich I77I House of Industry *774 Lying-in j 1752 Stafford 1769 Small-Pox 1746 Worcester 1745 Special, in Dublin. Lock (Female) 1745 Leeds 1767 The Rotunda 1745 „ (Male) 1747 Oxford 1770 The Lock ...' 1754 Leicester 1771 The Westmoreland 4 Provincial :— Dumfries 1775 Lock 1755 York I7IO Hereford 1776 Cork 1720-22 Salisbury 1716 Birmingham 1778 Limerick 1759 Cambridge 1719 Montrose 1780 Belfast 1797 St. Baitholomews and St. Thomas’s Hospitals, originally ecclesiastical establish- ments, were instituted several centuries earlier, and were secularised, the former in Statistical Journal, vol. xl. p. 181. B](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21911319_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
