Lanterna Rally

Author: Books Group

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781458906250

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... about? Tell me of a single voluntary hospital which can afford to alienate a single subscriber, or to dispense with one shilling of its allowance from the Hospital Sunday fund? To excite in the minds of any portion of the public a feeling of irritation and distrust is to initiate a policy of suicide for the hospital which does it and of serious injury to all other hospitals. Institutions which are dependent upon the voluntary support of the public must labour to deserve the confidence of the public. In no other way can they survive; and in no other way ought they to survive. The consciousness of the necessity for restoring public confidence induced several members of this Association to institute an inquiry into the religious, or rather the ecclesiastical, aspect of the nursing question in the metropolis. A carefully prepared schedule of questions was addressed to all known London hospitals. Answers to the inquiry have not been received from all the hospitals, though most of them have replied and have willingly furnished all necessary information. In all, fifty answers have been returned from London hospitals, and a considerable number from the country. Amongst those which have replied are Guy's, St. Thomas', Middlesex, St. George's, Westminster, the London Hospital, University College, St. Mary's, Great Northern Central, and other general hospitals. The special hospitals have replied in still larger numbers; making as 1 have said a total of fifty more or less complete answers from hospitals in London and its immediate vicinity. The questions were divided into two series. The first series referred to those cases in which the nursing was committed to the care of a religious sisterhood. They are here given in full: --I. Wheee Nursing Is Undertaken By A Religio..