Hospitals, Dispensaries and Nursing: Papers and Discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Hospitals, Dispensaries and Nursing: Papers and Discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893

The three great endowed hospitals, St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas's, and Guy's, might have an improved system of manage ment; regret is expressed by the committee that in St. Thomas's and Guy's, from want of funds, some beds are vacant and others let.

On this I need only observe that, amongst others, the late Dr. Steele, of Guy's, an excellent and most experienced witness, told the committee that all hospitals are best administered by weekly boards - this system so strengthens the hands of the immediate hospital authority. The drainage of St. Bartholomew's was found by the committee to be very defective. As a consequence, I am glad to see by the newspapers, this crying evil has been remedied by reconstrue tion ata cost of some Here is the last account of a year's Wk at St. Bartholomew's.

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