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272 ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITA...
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ladies found it no slight task to redeem the pledge tliey had given , when the founder and orter of the hospital was gonefor
during his life-time Mr . supp Guthrie had made it his care to sup , ply from his private purse all surplus and extra expenses , and no
destitute inmate ever left the institution unaided by his charity . Much of this he thought a ladies' committee might supply , and bravely
and faithfully they have met the exigencies and needs of the intervening three years . Upon their accession to office , the kitchens
and larders were found to be in bad order , the house linen insufficient in quantity and out of repair , the beds and bedding greatly
deteriorated in the wear and tear of twenty years . To the new ordering of these matters the ladies addressed themselves , and there is not
at this moment a bed , mattress , pillow , or bolster , which has not been renewed , the ladies of the committee themselves furnishing
the funds , either out of their own purses , or by means of subscriptions among their friends . One lady in turn undertakes for a
month to visit the hospital regularly , to see the dinners of the patients sent up occasionally , and to look to the thorough cleansing of the
wards . Hitherto the ladies' committee has been kept distinct from the
gentlemen's , but we are glad to learn that the two are now amalgamated , and that henceforth men and women will work together charit
for the advancement of this most necessary and efficient y . The female element is nowhere more needed than in the administration of the hospitals and the workhouses of this densely populated
king worth duction dom y of of , and it recognition into the success the Royal in which itself Westminster , has and attended will , O we phtlmlmic Mr trust . beneficiall Guthrie , lead Hosp 's ital to intro here the , is - . adoption elsewhere of a lan which has worked so
In itehoweverof the p exertions of all concernedso serious y has the debt loss to sp of the , its amount founder , of proved £ 200 , . that To the be hosp carried ital is on encumbered , with thoroug with h
efficiency , to effect all the good it is calculated to work , an income of In £ 800 consequence is required of , while this , thoug £ 500 h is out all -door it can relief command is never . denied of the ,
many most pressing of the wards and distressing are necessaril cases y are closed left , without and thus that some alleviation which this admirable institution is so eminently calculated to afford . in other
The stream of public charity has flowed so abundantly channel it onl s when needs pressing to bring wants forcibly have home been to made benevolent known , that persons we feel the
sure dire privation y and suffering blindness entails upon the poor , to open the purse strings of those , who , blessed sickness with _^ i g and ht , alnuence , with and
the friends which , a can and poor scarcel on creature the y realise restoration , afflicted the with of heart whose perhaps siht remedial , wife despair and disease children of _, g
open depend eye for , for Ms bread reception , is turned , because from wards the doors are closed of a hosp for ital want hitherto of the
272 Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospita...
272 ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/56/
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