Annual report : 1936 / Newbury District Hospital.

  • Newbury District Hospital (Newbury, England)
Date:
1936
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1936 / Newbury District Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RULES OF THE NEWBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL. [Rules 6 and 14 were amended in 1936.] 1. —The Newbury District Hospital is intended for the treatment of cases of sickness or accident occurring in Newbury and the neighbourhood which cannot be equally well treated at the home of the patient. Ordinary maternity cases are not admissible. No person shall be eligible for admission who is of unsound mind, or suffering from any infectious or incurable disease, or in an advanced stage of consumption. This rule does not preclude the admission of cases of enteric fever. 2. —The property of the Hospital shall be vested in Four Trustees, and whenever the number of Trustees shall, from any cause, be reduced below Three, the vacancies shall be filled at the next Annual, or at a Special General Meeting of Qualified Subscribers. 3. —All donors of £50 at one time shall be Vice-Presidents; all donors of £25 shall be Life-Governors. These shall be deemed to be Qualified Subscribers. Donors of £200 in one sum, or in two sums at separate times, shall have the privilege of naming a bed in the Hospital, and £200 given at one time by man and wife shall confer a like privilege. A gift or legacy of £1,000 shall endow a bed in perpetuity. 4. —Annual Subscribers of not less than 5/- and of not less than six months’ standing as subscribers shall be deemed qualified subscribers as long as they continue their subscription. They shall be entitled to attend the Annual and all Special General Meetings summoned under these rules, and to vote thereat; they are also qualified to serve as Honorary Officers or as elected Members of the Committee. The Newbury, Hungerford and Thatcham Groups of Centres under the Royal Berkshire and Associated Hospitals’ Aid Committee Contributory Scheme shall each be entitled to nominate one representative, who shall serve as a member of the Committee. Each centre within the said groups, which has during the previous year collected for the Scheme not less than £100 shall bei entitled to nominate one representative for each £100 so collected; such representative shall have the privileges of a qualified subscriber. Centres in which the sums collected fall short of £100 may combine to obtain like privileges. 5. —The Honorary Officers of the Hospital shall be : A President, who shall, if he be present, preside at all General Meetings; a Secretary; a Treasurer; a Chaplain; and as many Medical Officers as the Committee shall from time to time direct. 6. —The Management of the Hospital shall be vested in a Committee consisting of: The Trustees; The Honorary Officers; The Mayor of Newbury; Three Nominees of the Hospital Sat?irday Fund; Two Nominees of the Newbury Chamber of Trade; The Newbury, Hungerford and Thatcham Nominees of the Contributory Scheme; One Nominee of the Trades and Labour Council; Two Nominees of the Ladies’ Linen Guild; And not less than 12 or more than 15 elected qualified subscribers, of whom one third shall retire each year in rotation, but shall be eligible for re-election. In the event of any member elected by the qualified subscribers failing to attend six Committee Meetings during any year, unless prevented by illness from so doing, he shall automatically be disqualified from being again elected until after the expiry of a year.
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