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DISPENSARIES.
1172 LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.—This hospital was in 1870 with a view to test and demonstrate the principle that a great reform in the treatment of disease without the ordinary administration of alcohol is both possible and desirable. Its practice is perfectly general, and it would give the board great pleasure if they could prudently open to the public all the 120 beds which the building is capable cf containing, but they feel that, before doing this, the liabilities still resting on the building fund should be greatly diminished, and some provision made for an augmented annual income.
Fund, and in this
way a large sum is annually diverted into this most useful form of which otherwise would be received hy more clamorous, but certainly not more valuable, institutions. We wish that space were at our disposal for dealing with their claims individually, but, as that is not the case, we must be content with a mere enumeration of names.
DENTAL HOSPITAL OF LONDON.—The miseries to which dental maladies and dental deficiencies give rise are apt to be underrated and overlooked in comparison with the still more serious mischiefs which form the subjects of treatment in the great majority of hospitals, but when it is recognised how vast is the number of patients relieved at this institution, it will be felt that the attention bestowed upon its work is by no means thrown away or the work itself undeserving of generous support. The tabulated results given on another page represent only a part, though a large part, of the result attained, since the educational facilities which the hospital affords are only second in importance to its operative dentistry. With regard to its financial position, there is a deficit of B5700 in the extension account, and the committee are compelled to make a special appeal for the funds necessary to pay off this debt, which presses heavily upon the resources of the charity. NATIONAL DENTAL HOSPITAL.—Establislied in 1861 for the relief of patients suffering from diseases of the teeth and deformities of the mouth.
charity,
COTTAGE HOSPITALS. The above-named institutions all open their doors to the
public at large, and although naturally affording special advantages to the localities in which they are situated, extend
POPLAR HOSPITAL FOR ACCIDENTS.—Located in the their benefits, and in no stinted measure, far and wide. We the docks and amid a vast working class popula- have next t o mention a class of institutions on a much smaller tion, this hospital dispenses a large amount of relief in scale, eminently adapted to meet the needs of a small neigh. emergency. Its accommodation is, however, very inadequate bourhood, and of disease in its less malignant forms. These to the demands of the locality, and the committee have year are the cottage hospitals, as follows:by year to report that many cases have of necessity been sent on to another hospital at a distance of three miles at great cost of pain and no little danger to the sufferers. In the out-patient department the want of room is still more seriously felt, and the committee have been driven by these necessities to address an urgent appeal for additional support to their friends and the charitable public generally.
vicinity of
It must not be supposed that the foregoing list, though a long one, has exhausted the medical charities of London. On the contrary, whole classes have not yet been mentioned, and a complete description, even on the abridged scale here adopted, would be wholly beyond our present scope. To what still remain to be enumerated it must suffice to refer in the most general terms.
DISPENSARIES. The
numerous
and
important
class of
dispensaries remain
order of enumeration but by no means least in point either of collective or individual importance. Dispensaries, indeed, have the credit of having developed more generally than any other form of medical charity the character of provident institutions. In large measure this arises from the nature of the benefit which they provide. The hospital, as to in-patients, at least, is usually a CONVALESCENT HOSPITALS. refuge to which recourse will only be had in circumstances of Allusion has been already made to the important part which extraordinary and calamitous sickness or mishap. For the the Convalescent Home plays in the treatment of lesser indispositions which do not disable the patient, or children, but it must not be supposed that the benefit short diseases which scarcely infringe upon the even tenor of of this institution can only be realised by sufferers of tend.’r his way, he does not seek their aid unless in the capacity of years, or is provided for them alone. On the contrary, most an out-patient. But for these cases the dispensary provides, of the great hospitals have now either branches in the country and provides also the machinery by which the patient can receive a medical visit in his own home. It is natural that or at the sea coast, or some arrangements for making inderesorts of this available for their pendent description patients. for such purposes provision should be made by way of insurIn many forms of disease such a change of air and scene as ance, and a provident dispensary is neither more nor less than is thus provided is simply indispensable to sound recovery, a health insurance scheme. This probably is the reason why and in many more it is helpful in a high degree. The patient the provident principle has been so largely interwoven in pent within the hospital walls and perpetually confronted dispensary schemes, but, whether that be so or not, the fact is with its painfully suggestive surroundings, pines and flags: indisputable that so it is, and thus a most important feature he needs a larger liberty, a broader horizon, a balmier breeze, is added to their merits, for while they dispense material a more variegated sunlight. To place these within the reach relief they cultivate also the virtue of independence and the of the indigent patient, and thus afford him facilities for per- excellence of prudence. In the great majority of cases, howfecting his cure, is a worthy object of the most enlightened ever, the provident fund needs to be supplemented by charicharity, and one that cannot fail of commending itself more table aids, and hence not fewer than fifty dispensaries will and more to the judgment of reflecting philanthropists. The participate in the proceeds of the Hospital Sunday collection. direct popular support at present extended to these insti- As the names of these dispensaries are given and their work tutions is comparatively small. Their value has been more is illustrated in the following tabulated statement it is unneclearly recognised by the com4ttee of the Hospital Sunday cessary to enumerate them here.
remedial
invalid
to be
noticed, last in
our
Fund, and in this
way a large sum is annually diverted into this most useful form of which otherwise would be received hy more clamorous, but certainly not more valuable, institutions. We wish that space were at our disposal for dealing with their claims individually, but, as that is not the case, we must be content with a mere enumeration of names.
DENTAL HOSPITAL OF LONDON.—The miseries to which dental maladies and dental deficiencies give rise are apt to be underrated and overlooked in comparison with the still more serious mischiefs which form the subjects of treatment in the great majority of hospitals, but when it is recognised how vast is the number of patients relieved at this institution, it will be felt that the attention bestowed upon its work is by no means thrown away or the work itself undeserving of generous support. The tabulated results given on another page represent only a part, though a large part, of the result attained, since the educational facilities which the hospital affords are only second in importance to its operative dentistry. With regard to its financial position, there is a deficit of B5700 in the extension account, and the committee are compelled to make a special appeal for the funds necessary to pay off this debt, which presses heavily upon the resources of the charity. NATIONAL DENTAL HOSPITAL.—Establislied in 1861 for the relief of patients suffering from diseases of the teeth and deformities of the mouth.
charity,
COTTAGE HOSPITALS. The above-named institutions all open their doors to the
public at large, and although naturally affording special advantages to the localities in which they are situated, extend
POPLAR HOSPITAL FOR ACCIDENTS.—Located in the their benefits, and in no stinted measure, far and wide. We the docks and amid a vast working class popula- have next t o mention a class of institutions on a much smaller tion, this hospital dispenses a large amount of relief in scale, eminently adapted to meet the needs of a small neigh. emergency. Its accommodation is, however, very inadequate bourhood, and of disease in its less malignant forms. These to the demands of the locality, and the committee have year are the cottage hospitals, as follows:by year to report that many cases have of necessity been sent on to another hospital at a distance of three miles at great cost of pain and no little danger to the sufferers. In the out-patient department the want of room is still more seriously felt, and the committee have been driven by these necessities to address an urgent appeal for additional support to their friends and the charitable public generally.
vicinity of
It must not be supposed that the foregoing list, though a long one, has exhausted the medical charities of London. On the contrary, whole classes have not yet been mentioned, and a complete description, even on the abridged scale here adopted, would be wholly beyond our present scope. To what still remain to be enumerated it must suffice to refer in the most general terms.
DISPENSARIES. The
numerous
and
important
class of
dispensaries remain
order of enumeration but by no means least in point either of collective or individual importance. Dispensaries, indeed, have the credit of having developed more generally than any other form of medical charity the character of provident institutions. In large measure this arises from the nature of the benefit which they provide. The hospital, as to in-patients, at least, is usually a CONVALESCENT HOSPITALS. refuge to which recourse will only be had in circumstances of Allusion has been already made to the important part which extraordinary and calamitous sickness or mishap. For the the Convalescent Home plays in the treatment of lesser indispositions which do not disable the patient, or children, but it must not be supposed that the benefit short diseases which scarcely infringe upon the even tenor of of this institution can only be realised by sufferers of tend.’r his way, he does not seek their aid unless in the capacity of years, or is provided for them alone. On the contrary, most an out-patient. But for these cases the dispensary provides, of the great hospitals have now either branches in the country and provides also the machinery by which the patient can receive a medical visit in his own home. It is natural that or at the sea coast, or some arrangements for making inderesorts of this available for their pendent description patients. for such purposes provision should be made by way of insurIn many forms of disease such a change of air and scene as ance, and a provident dispensary is neither more nor less than is thus provided is simply indispensable to sound recovery, a health insurance scheme. This probably is the reason why and in many more it is helpful in a high degree. The patient the provident principle has been so largely interwoven in pent within the hospital walls and perpetually confronted dispensary schemes, but, whether that be so or not, the fact is with its painfully suggestive surroundings, pines and flags: indisputable that so it is, and thus a most important feature he needs a larger liberty, a broader horizon, a balmier breeze, is added to their merits, for while they dispense material a more variegated sunlight. To place these within the reach relief they cultivate also the virtue of independence and the of the indigent patient, and thus afford him facilities for per- excellence of prudence. In the great majority of cases, howfecting his cure, is a worthy object of the most enlightened ever, the provident fund needs to be supplemented by charicharity, and one that cannot fail of commending itself more table aids, and hence not fewer than fifty dispensaries will and more to the judgment of reflecting philanthropists. The participate in the proceeds of the Hospital Sunday collection. direct popular support at present extended to these insti- As the names of these dispensaries are given and their work tutions is comparatively small. Their value has been more is illustrated in the following tabulated statement it is unneclearly recognised by the com4ttee of the Hospital Sunday cessary to enumerate them here.
remedial
invalid
to be
noticed, last in
our