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 1897 ; 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 1897.
- Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 1897 ; 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 1897. 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.
![used as the design for stables, and the stables have become, little more than half a centiiry after erection, a Hospitiil for the r eception and care of the poor afflicted sufferers, resorting to iiuxton for the use of its mineral waters. From the year 1820, then, to the beginning of September, 1858, when the Hospital was opened, or in 38 years, the Institu- tion had received 38,225 Patients; of which number 35,042 were beneficially treated, and 2183 were very partially if at all relieved. During those 38 years, the Buxton Bath Charity received, on an average, ujDwards of 1000 Patients every year, and afforded cure or marked relief to 922 of that number. To a very large propor- tion of this important number of poor sufferers, chiefly from chronic rheumatism, the Charity gave a weekly alloAvance of 6s. during their stay in Buxton, in addition to all othei- benefits; until the funds became so seriously impaired, that the weekly money allowance was necessarily reduced to 5s., at Avhich sum it remained until the opening of the Hospital. Fi-om the time of reducing the weekly money allowance, the pecuniary prosperity of the Buxton Bath Charity may be dated. The funds accumu- lated year by year, until the time of rebuilding the Buxton Baths, on the part of the 6th Duke of Devonshire, when a capital of nearly £3000 had been gathered together by the sci-u])ulous management of the Trustees. The names may be mentioned, first and particularly, of the late Bishop Spencer, at one time a trustee, and incumbent of Buxton, and more recently one of the Vice-presidents of the Hospital; of Mr. Heacock and Mr. Smithers, its successive Treasurers; and of Sir Charles Scudamore. Dr. Robertson, Mr. Page, Mr. Cumming, Dr. Carstairs, the Hex. K. P. Hull-Brown, and the Rev. the Honourable F. J^. Grey, a.s being no longer alive to witness and take part in the pi-esent development of the Charity. Of these £3000, £500 was judici(iusly expended on the rebuilding of the Charity Natural Baths ; the large remaining sum which those Baths cost, and the whole cost of the Hot Baths of the Charity, having been paid by the munifi- cence of the 6th Duke of Devonshire^ Again, in 1853-4, Avhen the proposal of a Hospitjil to receive the Patients of the Institu- tion was brought before the public by Mr. Smithers and the other Trustees, the sum of £1000 from the accumulated fund was given towards the Hospital; leaving a residue of £1500 Consols, which sum remains thus invested. (See Estate Account.) The history and doings of the Buxton Bath Charity have thus been summarily brought down to the time of forming the Hospital, the expenses of which were defrayed by the individual and collective liberality of the Trustees ; by special subscriptions from the public; by the proceeds of a bazaar, that was bounti- fully supplied and supported, &c.—a totol sum of £6000 having been thus got together, and expended on the conversion of this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24768480_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
