A short history of the rise and progress of the Manchester Royal Infirmary : from the year 1752 to 1877 / [F. Renaud].
- Renaud, Frank
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A short history of the rise and progress of the Manchester Royal Infirmary : from the year 1752 to 1877 / [F. Renaud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Majesty having been graciously pleased to pronounce the same. A petition was also forwarded to the Governing Body of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, London, that, in consideration of an efficient Medical School having been estabhshed, with all requisite appliances, their certificates of Hospital attendance might be recognised in the granting of Diplomas. 233]^ Cholera having broken out on the Continent, with a likelihood of its appearing in Manchester, the Physicians were instructed to make a report on the state of the House of Recovery with reference to its capability of receiving persons who might sufier from this scourge. The return showed that the capacity of this Institution for the reception of patients did not exceed 79 beds, and that 77 persons were at that date occupants of beds. A Special and General Board, inclusive of the toAvn authorities, was therefore summoned to make arrangements for this contingency, and fix on sites and suitable buildings. 1832 A new Operating Theatre was constructed at a cost of £145; and memorial slabs, recording the deaths and benefactions of Mr. Dauntesy Hulme and of Miss Hall, ordered to be set up in the Infirmary, at a cost of £21. 12s. 6d. The Directors](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750311_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
