Rules of the Sheffield Public Dispensary : as amended at the Special General Meeting of Governors, held the 5th of August, 1833.

  • Sheffield Public Dispensary.
Date:
1833
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Credit: Rules of the Sheffield Public Dispensary : as amended at the Special General Meeting of Governors, held the 5th of August, 1833. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when admitted, when discharged, and in what condition. He shall attend all Boards to register their proceedings, and keep all the accounts of the Charity. He shall on no account absent himself from the House, without leav- ing word stating where he may be found, and shall not absent himself during one whole day without first obtain- ing leave in writing from the faculty, and procuring a person of whom they approve to transact his duties. He shall not resign the duties of his office without giving notice of his intention, in writing, two months previously, to the Weekly Board. PATIENTS. XLI. The Patients shall be of two descriptions. Out- patients and Home-patients ; the former shall bring their recommendations to the Dispensary on any day in the week, Sundays excepted, between the hours of ten and eleven o’clock in the forenoon, and shall continue to at- tend at the same hour as often as their medical attendant shall direct; the latter shall send their recommendations between the same hours, and they shall then be visited by the Physician or Surgeon, who shall continue his attendance as often as he thinks it requisite. On Sun- days the Dispensary shall only be open till ten o’clock in the morning, and during the interval between morning and afternoon service, except for cases of accident or sudden emergency. XLII, When a Patient has once been admitted under the care of one of the Medical Officers, he shall continue under the same until he is discharged, and shall not be entitled to admission for the same complaint under any of the other Medical Officers in less than three months, without the consent of the Physician or Surgeon, under whose care he was first placed. XLIII. All persons must furnish themselves with clean phials and gallipots, or deposit sixpence at the Dis- pensary, which they shall receive back again when they return the phiajs or gallipots they have obtained at the Dispensary,
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