[General report of the Royal Hospital of Bethlem, for the year ending 31st December, 1885] / Bethlem Royal Hospital.

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1886]
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Credit: [General report of the Royal Hospital of Bethlem, for the year ending 31st December, 1885] / Bethlem Royal Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who can most readily detect failure in general bodily health. In Dr. Percy Smith the Hospital has gained an Officer who will advance the general interest of medicine as well as the special objects of the Asylum. I cannot pass over the resignation of the Rev. E. Rudge from the post of Chaplain Superintendent of King Edward’s Schools ; for though not directly connected with Bethlem Royal Hospital, he was constantly in relationship with the patients at the Convalescent Establishment at Witley, and also with the Medical Officers at Bethlem, who have many duties among the school children at Witley and in London. Mr. Rudge has always been a most agreeable colleague, and has assisted the Medical Officers in the performance of their duties. From the consideration of the History of the year, I would turn to the Medical and other work, and I think it best to divide it into Medical, Surgical, and Social. On the Medical side, I think I may say that any new remedy which has been suggested, and even many old and half-forgotten remedies, have been put on their trial; and though, perhaps, very much has not been published to the world, yet the daily classes of students diffuse the results of their experience gained in Bethlem. I hope next year, with the help of Dr. Percy Smith, to lay before the Governors a more ample Report of work done during the year, in the hope that it may be of sufficient value to justify its separate appearance as a Medical Report of the year for Bethlem Royal Hospital.