Report : 1947 / Mount Vernon Hospital and Radium Institute.

  • Mount Vernon Hospital and the Radium Institute (Northwood, London, England)
Date:
1947
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Credit: Report : 1947 / Mount Vernon Hospital and Radium Institute. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT, 1947. The Council have the honour to submit to the Members their report for the year 1947, together with the accounts audited by Messrs. J. M. Winter & Sons. Sir Sam. H. Brown, Mr. Rollo Hoare, Dr. Derek Jackson and Mr. P. J. Jory were all compelled, owing to their other heavy commitments, to resign their membership of the Council, and the Council desire to record their grateful thanks to them for their services to the Hospital. The Council report with great regret the death of Mr. K. A. Layton-Bennett, who had been elected to the Council as a representative of Charing Cross Hospital only a few months prior to his death. A very warm welcome is extended to Mrs. Ritchie, Dr. H. W. C. Vines and Dr. Roy Ward, who accepted invita¬ tions to join the Council during the year. The deaths during the year of Professor Weigert, the Hospital’s Physical Chemist, and Miss A. M. Ross, a member of the Radiotherapy staff, are recorded with very deep regret. Dr. C. E. Lakin, Mr. H. G. Arthure and Mr. R. S. Lewis were elected to the Visiting Medical Staff during the year. Three members of the Visiting Medical Staff resigned during the year, Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Keynes and Mr. H. B. Stallard, owing to other commitments, and Mr. H. W. Rodgers, on his appointment to the Chair of Surgery in Belfast. These gentlemen have rendered great service to the Hos¬ pital and the Council desire to record their sincere apprecia¬ tion of these services. From the statistical tables on page 26 it will be seen that the average number of in-patients for the year was rather less than in 1946, i.e., the total number of patients admitted during' the year was 3,633, compared with 4,071 in 1946. This decrease of 438 was due almost entirely to the fact that only 185 service cases were admitted during the year, whereas 593 such cases were received in 1946. The number of patients admitted to Mount Vernon general beds, however,
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