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HOSPITAL NEWS.

Lady de Frece (Miss Vesta Tilley) lias been elected president Beckenham Cottage Hospital is to be enlarged by a large of the Birmingham Childrens' Hospital. ward and eight smaller ones for paying . The kitchens will also be remodelled. The War Memorial of Burradon, a Northumbrian mining village, is a four-roomed cottage for the district nurse. The A cheque for ?221 has been presented to Nurse Law in cottage has been built for the purpose. recognition of her services to the Berwick and District Association since its foundation 30 The Raleigh Cycle Company has presented a specially Nursing years ago. designed bicycle for the use of the maternity department at An arm-chair and a sewing machine have been presented St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The machine is fitted with front to Sister Faircliild by the committee of the Bristol and Clifton and rear carriers for the doctor's outfit. District Nurses' Society in recognition of her twenty-five years' devoted service. The Leeds General Infirmary, which reports a deficiency of over ?25,000, is looking forward to a visit from the Prince The erection of a children's bungalow ward has been at an of Wales in the early summer to open the King Edward VII. approved the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital; army Memorial Extension. hut has been bought to supply some of the materials. A sum of ?3,300 is at the committee's for this The Post Office has given ?8 7s. Gd. to King's College disposal purpose. Hospital in exchange for the old, defaced and damaged coins, The dispute between the Hammersmith Board of Guardians which could not be passed through the bank, found in col- and the Ministry of Pensions over the rental of the workhouse lecting boxes placed on the railings outside the hospital. and infirmary buildings at Ducane Road as a special surgical hospital for disabled soldiers lias been settled. A rent of The Wolverhampton General Hospital has decided to ?12,000 a year for two from 1, 1922, is to be a sister-tutor and to form a years January appoint preliminary training paid. school for nurses in an annexe to the nurses' house. This A decision will increase the nursing staff and shorten its hours. fancy fair in aid of the Biitish Home and Hospital for Incurables, Crown Lane, Strefttham, is to be held in the grounds The late Mr. J. P. Cumine was for of fifty years secretary of the institution on June 7. Particulars can be the Aberdeen and Vaccine Institution. Since Wednesday, Dispensary obtained from the Mrs. Frank 1 Norfolk 1840 the secretarial duties have been organiser, Cripps, performed by partners Street, Park Lane, W.l. in the same firm, of which the new secretary, Mr. Sands, is has also a member. Christ Church Vicarage, Bradford, which for years been the nurses' at the and Ear must Miss Murray has resigned the presidency of the Richmond Eye Hospital, now be or surrendered. If the ?2,000 now District Nursing Association, which she has held for many bought appealed for is not raised, the will be of a years. She was one of the principal workers who in 1884 hospital dispossessed building the site of which is at its rear. first formed the society, and has consented still to act as one conveniently placed of its vice-presidents. Bristol General Hospital has started a vaccine therapy and for an mental The Ernest Edward Memorial Nurses' Home department, made arrangements out- Heywood where disease Extension at the Huddersfield has been , those suffering from incipient mental Royal Infirmary can be treated without certification. The clinic is opened by one of the donors, Mrs. Heywood. It provides incurring under the of Dr. J. V. Blachford, Medical rooms for twenty more nurses. In 1910 Mrs. charge Superin- Heywood tendent of the Bristol Mental opened the original home, which she and her husband had Hospital. given in memory of their son. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Edinburgh Hospital and for Mrs. J. T. Hunter said that there The of at Norwich Workhouse Dispensary Women, allegations understaffing was a distinct reaction in Scotland women doctors. Infirmary, which were supported by Dr. the medical against Barclay, In as far as could there was not the least officer, have led the house committee to recommend his Glasgow, they see, prospect for a woman doctor to become a teacher on suspension ; and he has now resigned. Critics of the infirmary young a hospital staff. The solution was for women to have have suggested an inquiry by the Ministry of Health into the only of their own. adequacy of the nursing staff. Miss Van Thol has been teacher of elocution to Princess Marie Louise visited 30a Wimpole Street, on March appointed patients treated for cleft at the Dental 22, and there presented Miss Hellis, late Secretary of the being palate Royal Hospital, Leicester The states that Throat Hospital, Great Portland Street, with a purse Square. report original difficulties in continue after treatment as of 150 guineas, subscribed by the medical staff, members of speaking generally an habit, and that the of a skilled elocutionist committee, and friends of her old on her retirement, acquired help hospital, makes all the difference to when as a token of of her and devoted services patients seeking employ- appreciation loyal ment. for 25 years. Mr. Robert of the Thomas, wife of Sir W. J. Thomas, of Cardiff, has Edger, secretary Hartlepools Hospital Lady has his which he has held for the endowed a cot at the North Staffordshire where she resigned post, long period Infirmary, of Mr. was was Miss Maud was twenty-six years. Edger's resignation accepted trained. As Mary Cooper, Lady Thomas " with and he was described as a and faithful sister of Ward 6 and of the children's ward before going to regret, good servant." Since the was established, in he Cardiff, where she was assistant-matron at Edward VII. hospital 1865, King has seen which culminated in the additions at the time of her in 1917. Sir William many changes Hospital marriage and made in 1920. Thomas, it will be recalled, crowned his benefactions to volun- improvements tary hospitals with the gift of ?100,000 for the buildings of The first woman resident medical officer has been appointed the Welsh Medical School. to the staff of Hospital, , in the person of Dr. Phyllis M. a of Manchester The late Miss Amy Hill was for over years an Congday, graduate University. forty-four The women in hitherto have on active worker for the Northern only resident posts been the Royal Hospital, Holloway. staffs of in Manchester. In the She became associated with the institution when, as the Great special hospitals general hospitals have been non-resident officers in the Northern Hospital, it occupied a small house in Caledonian they assisting Road, N., on the site of the Public Baths. The hospital out-patient departments. apparently was the first in London to form a ladies' associa- After thirty years' work Horsham Hospital has dropped the tion and to admit ladies to the Committee of Management. style of cottage hospital, and is to be rebuilt on a new site Miss Hill became a member of the former in 1882 and of the adjoining the existing building. The plans have been pre- latter in 1900. She saw the hospital's activities transferred pared by Mr. F. G. Troup, F.R.I.B.A., and provide for two to Holloway Road (with 64 bsds) in 1888, the erection of the wards with twelve beds apiece, three private wards, and Reckitt Convalescent Home, Clacton-on-Sea, in 1909, the complementary staff quarters and offices. The cost is opening of the Hospital of Recovery, Southgate, last year, expected to be ?13,000, of which ?12,000 is in hand, apart and the amalgamation of the Royal Chest Hospital, City from the value of the old building. The new scheme will Road?the oldest chest hospital?with the main institution. rather more than double the hospital's accommodation, and One of her chief interests was the new nurseV home. the money for it leaves the endowment fund untouched. 236 THE HOSPITAL AND HEALTH REVIEW May

The Infant Hospital, Dundee, situated at Broughty Ferry Other News. is the only one of its kind in Scotland, for it is not a hospital for sick children, but for the treatment of feeble-minded After 26 years' service, Dr. Francis Stevens, Medical infants. Mr. R. Still declared at the recent annual meeting Officer of Health for Camberwell, has retired. that the parents of the children under treatment learnt much, The Central Association for the Care of the Defec and that the hospital provided a field for medical research. Mentally tive, 24 Palace Road, S.W.I, will be known in Last year 160 patients were treated, many of whom are said Buckingham future as the Central Association for Mental to have suffered from the effects of unsuitable diet. Apart Welfare. from the debt of ?1,100 on the capital account, the revenue We regret to hear of the death of Miss Elizabeth Mary almost balances the expenses, but the committee feels that Jones, H.M. Inspector (Ministry of Health) for Wales and the institution should be more widely known both to the border counties, formerly for many years Lady Superintendent practitioners and the people of Dundee. and Matron of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. The of the of a The Leeds Board of Guardians has with the Council College Nursing has passed resolu- arranged tion its of General for the services of consultants, and also for recording appreciation the action of the Minister Infirmary of Health in the rules of the General medical students and post-graduates to attend the Union approving Nursing Council for and as amended on 17. Infirmary by arrangement with the Medical Superintendent. England Wales, February that the rules as now are The work of the Union is not to be inter- It feels confident amended in the best ordinary Infirmary interests of trained nurses. rupted, and the Guardians reserve the right to terminate the at time. A somewhat similar in agreement any arrangement During 1921 no fewer than 48,000 patients were treated at London is that School Committee of by which the Medical the several infectious hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums S. has received from the Mary's Hospital permission Padding- Board. Some of the patients were admitted on more than ton Guardians for the medical students to visit the wards of one occasion. The number of patients was 5,423 on September the and for of the of St. Infirmary members staff Mary's 3, and exceeded the maximum number of cases under treat- to clinical in the wards. Hospital give teaching ment on any one day in nineteen out of the last twenty-five number rose until November when the The committee of St. Peter's for diseases years. The rapidly 8, Hospital urinary maximum, was reached. has arranged with the Hampstead Guardians for 20 patients 9,599, to be received at the New End Infirmary. St. Peter's Hospital Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston has been appointed President had to close for repairs, and there was a long list of patients of the Royal College of , in succession to Sir Norman waiting admission. 20 patients, therefore, are at New End Moore, who has resigned. He is Emeritus to at a cost to the Hospital of ?3 ahead a week. The Hospital St. George's Hospital, Physician to the Victoria Hospital for provides its own medical staff and nurses. The arrangement is Children, Chelsea, Consulting Physician to West Herts understood to benefit the rates, since the cost to the Guardians Infirmary, member of the Medical Administrative Committee, is ?2 a are a week. The patients accommodated in ward Royal Air Force ; Visitor to King Edward VII. Memorial which would otherwise be empty. Every example of mutually Fund, and Examiner in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, satisfactory co-operation is welcome, and encourages further London, Durham, Manchester and Sheffield. accommodation of the kind. A Fellowship for the encouragement of research in Pre- The growing use of the Birmingham Poor Law Hospitals ventive Medicine has been instituted in memory of the late has led the Birmingham Guardians to form a settled policy. Auguste Sheridan Delepine, Professor of and They invite the voluntary hospitals to restrict transfers to the Bacteriology in the University of Manchester from 1891 to Guardians' Infirmaries to persons resident in the Birmingham 1921, by the addition of the emoluments of the former Junior Union, or to persons residing in those other Unions which have Research Fellowships in Public Health to the interest derived agreed to pay for the maintenance of cases coming from their from an endowment of ?1,000 made by Dr. Charles Slater, of areas. Not all the local Guardians have so agreed ; and the Tunbridge Wells. A Fellowship of ?300 will be offered Birmingham Guardians disclaim responsibility for patients biennially and be open to competition by graduates in from these areas unable to find admission to the voluntary medicine of this or any other approved University, or who hospitals. These rules, we understand, are not intended to hold an approved registrable medical qualification. to accidents in the The rate of apply occurring City. high The Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the British admissions to the Road and Oak Dudley Selby Hospitals Red Cross in conjunction with the Federation of show that there is now no these Society, apparently prejudice against Women's Institutes, has arranged a series of seven lectures Institutions. " on How to Keep Well." The lectures are being given free each week to Women's Institutes in the counties of On March 23 the Queen opened the new hospital Surrey, buildings East of the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, Woolwich, Hampshire, Norfolk, Huntingdon, Stafford, Sussex, Dorset, Essex and Lincolnshire, women, and patients arrived a week later. It will be recalled that the by specially-qualified to each of whom is allotted a circuit of ten institutes. All hospital was the result of an amalgamation in 1915 between of the courses are borne the Joint Council, the British Lying-in H6spital and the Home for Mothers and the expenses by with the of between the institutes Babies. Its aim is to serve as a National Training School for exception travelling expenses and for which the Federation of Women's Institutes District Midwives. During the past year ?20,000 was received hospitality is and spent from the Ministry of Health, and though the responsible. are far from the ward a corner of buildings complete, block, We have received a copy of the provisional programme of the administration block and the chapel have been finished. the Congress of Radiology and Physiotherapy, to be held in to be as a The present Wood Street quarters have kept Nurses' London on June 7-10. This Congress, organised by the Home. The hospital's scheme for relieving the unemployed Section of Electro-Therapeutics of the Royal Society of by setting them to dig the rest of the basement and to make Medicine and the British Association for the Advancement of the front road, despite the Borough Council's support, fell Radiology and Physiotherapy, is the postponed Bilingual with through. It indicates, however, the eagerness which the Congress of 1921, intended as a compliment to French and completion of its building scheme is desired. Belgian confreres who entertained British representatives a small at the end of the war. The to be gathering " subjects " discussed include and Radium '> " Deep Therapy by X-Rays The Action of the Direct Current on the Tissues in Health " and Disease" ; The Uses of Electrical Methods in the " " & of and of ; The Messrs. Manlove, Alliott Co., Ltd., engineers, Notting- Diagnosis Prognosis Paralysis Physiological" of Currents 5 have issued a of their latest Action and Therapeutic Uses High Frequency ham, catalogue (No. 650a) high- " " " " steam disinfectors of various for and The Re-education of Muscles ; Cardiac Disorders ; pressure types hospitals " Sciolosis." There will be an exhibition of and institutions. Another catalogue (No. 512) shows a full range and X-Ray for should be of their hydro-extractors or centrifugals for laundry work. electrical apparatus. Applications membership sent to the hon. treasurer, Dr. James 123 Harley Copies of these catalogues, which are very well produced, may Metcalfe, Wl. THb for British members is ?2 2s. be obtained on application to the company. Street, subscription