Clinical lectures on neurasthenia / by Thomas Dixon Savill.

  • Thomas Dixon Savill
Date:
1908
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    ailment to which flesh is heir. To render this available for medical teaching is undoubtedly a great gift to the Profession, and through it to the pubhc, who necessarily gain indirectly by improved medical education. I have never ceased to enunciate these views, and you can well imagine with what satisfaction I see the realisation of my desires through the hberality and foresight of the Board of Guardians under whom I have the honour to serve. This large group of buildings comprises three depart- ments, under the government of one Board of Guardians, (i) In the new infirmary, where we are now situated, there are 284 beds, 32 of which are for the reception of sick children, 16 for cases needing isolation, and the rest for acute and severe cases of disease of different kinds, both medical and surgical. (2) The old infirmary the sick-wards of the workhouse), next door, comprises 310 beds, 10 for lying-in cases, 20 for mental cases, which are con- stantly passing through the workhouse, and the rest for various kinds of chronic ailments. (3) Finally, there is what is erroneously called the “ able-bodied ” department of the workhouse, which really contains infirm persons of both sexes, too old or too infirm to do much beyond a little needlework or wood-chopping. These old people are very frequently affected by the minor ailments inci- dental to advanced life, and daily seek the doctor’s aid in considerable numbers. (The labour-yard, where idle able- bodied persons are set to accomplish a daily task of stone-breaking or oakum-picking, is situated elsewhere under a separate administration.) Thus, in this insti- tution there is a population of over a thousand persons, subject to every conceivable kind of disease, presenting