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Credit: Village hospitals / Andrew Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Goal Uorlt, Vtr 1. lsW bourhood are so linked together that the thrill of sympathy run* swiftly through the whole chain. How much more wo feel inclined to help those we know something about than strangers, and in the country we all know one another. In great aggregations of men, sympathy is lost by diffusion ; who thinks of interrogating the poor crouching creature on the door step in Belgravia on a bitter winter night—is there not the Union for her to go to? bury, Dorset; Stokcn Church, Oxford ; Louth am, Warwick; Haver nake, Wilts; Sooth will, Notts; Tavistock, Devon ; Thetford, Norfolk ; Tipton Green, Stafford; Ulcer* tone, Lancashire; Worth ing, Sussex; Walker, Northumberland; Yoxford Suffolk ; Zealand t'onyers, Lincolnshire; and p*w- sibly others with which we an? not yet acquainted. As many persons, on charitable thoughts intent, will be glad to know tho ex]smise of working one of these admirable institutions, we cannot perhajw do Even the furnishing of tho Village Hospital is , better than give the balance sheet of the working effected, in many cases, by the direct contributions expenses of the Granley Model for four year^ of friends. Thus, at the East Grinstead Village beginning in 1859 and ending in I$63. During this -! ■* 1 ■ - ’- 1 t r • ; .... . ; . , ! i■ r. : • u. t. t* - room, and others gave nil kinds of medicinal ami surgical appliances, and small matters that go to ease the pain of the invalid. This willingness to aid in the good work renders it comparatively easy to establish and maintain these useful institutions, the value of which is so apparent that they are rapidly spreading throughout tho length and the breadth of the land. It is not more than seven years since the first Village Hospital was established, and now there are sixteen in full work, and sixty- seven in course of establishment. It may be as well perhaps if we mention the villages in which hospitals are now* established. They arc as follows : — Bourton-on-the-water, Glou- cestershire ; Bungay, Sulfolk ; Cranley, .Surrey ; Dorking, Surrey ; Capcl, Surrey ; East Grinstead, Snssex ; Fowcy, Cornwall; Great Book ham, Surrey ; Harrow, Middlesex ; Ilfracoml»e, Devon ; St An- drew’s, Fifeshire ; Tavistock, Devon ; Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire ; Weston-super-Mare, Somerset- shire; Wollow, Notts; and Wriugton, Somerset- shire. Whilst they arc already in course of formation in the following places: — Ampthill, Beds ; Aylcsford, Kent; Bishops Lydiard, Somerset; Beverley, Yorkshire; Bert ley, Durham; Bedford, Beds ; Bnnbury, Cheshire ; Burbage, Wilts; Black- heath, Kent ; Clovcdon, Somerset ; Chilampton, Somerset; Cowes, Isle of Wight; Carlisle, Cumber- land ; Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; Cockonnouth, Cumberland ; Conglcton, Cheshire ; Devizes, Wilts; Daventry, Northampton ; Dudley, Worcestershire ; Dorchester, Dorset ; Erdington, Warwick ; Frome, Somerset ; Falmouth, Cornwall ; Folkestone, Kent; Gainsborough, Lincolnshire ; Orauthnm, Lincoln- shire; Haqicmlcn, Herts; llalcsworth, Suffolk ; Humtpierpont, Sussex ; Higligate, Middlesex; llar- rowgate, Yorkshire ; Hatfield, Essex ; Hartley Row, Herts; Holywell, Flintshire; lver, Berks; Kuuts- ford, Cheshire ; Kilsyth, North Britain ; Luton, Bods; lx-'wes, Sussex; Leamington, Warwick ; Iichlield, StafTorrl; Middlesliorough, Yorkshire; Marlliorongh, Wilts ; Market Rasen, Lincolnshire; Malvern, Worcestershire; Northwich, Clieshire; North Cray, Cheshire ; Newton Abliott, Devon- shire; Nantwich, Clieshiro; Penrith, Cumberland; Redditch, Worcestershire ; Richmond, Surrey ; Wal- sall, Staffordshire; Hi Austell’s, Cornwall; Shaft**- stay varying from a few days to months, and in one instance to nearly an entire year. Many of the surgical cases were of a very severe nature, and w» have no doubt whatever that in every case they made far moro rapid recoveries, owing to the gml air and immediate treatment, than they w.. have done in the host regulated Metropolitan hospitals, possessing tho pick of tho surgical akill of the country Receipts and Expc . .itur$ daring tour Xtan f*r Unt Hundred 1‘atixnts. Receipt*. Donations and Subscriptions From Patients . Expenditure. For Fatients, Salaries, Wine, Beer, &c. Insurance, IVint ng, &c. . itepaini and Improve men ta . Furuituru ft! £ 4. 64J 5 6 131 4 6 £073 9 11 £ s. 4. 411 5 b S4 17 6 73 11 4 ft! 11 4 £612 13 t;nd 1 If we divide the total expenditure by four, tlmt tho annual cost, including furniture and re- pairs, was but little more than 15ttf. per annum. Of course tho two last items of expenditure cannot be looked u{>on as an animal charge. If we take the more cost of the jiatients it but little exceeds a hundred a year /or the trvatmeut of twenty-five cases, or five pounds per case. This give* a fair view of the extremely economical method in which thcao institutions are workod. One of the moat encouraging items of reoeipt is the sum of 1311 4s. 6*1., contributed by tho patients them selves. It is very crcditablo to our ruatie popu- lation, that tliey have set an examplo to tho Metropolitan art issue in this rvepoct, which wc trust will not be ovorlookexl If the peasant with hit comparatively low rate of wages can manage to give so much towards his own snp|wrt whilst de tarred from laliour, it strikes us that the highly paid nrti an in Ixmdon, leaning upon noli frien societies, should not certainly allow themselves hly j 'll](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22466423_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
