Second annual report of the Hospital for Natural Healing : 1936-7
1937 1937 1930s 13 pages SECOND ANNUAL REPORT The Governors have much pleasure in presenting this, their Second Annual Report. The first year in the life of an institution is always difficult and critical, and so also is the second, although for different reasons. During the first year we were not e...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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1937
1930s
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SECOND ANNUAL REPORT The Governors have much pleasure in presenting this, their Second Annual Report. The first year in the life of an institution is always difficult and critical, and so also is the second, although for different reasons. During the first year we were not expected to do very much, in fact to many it was a surprise we existed at all. But having safety passed our first birthday it seems that some imagined that we should spend the following year literally working miracles. There are some who ask "Why have you not raised sufficient money to open an in-patient department, and why have you not got recognition or at least co-operation from the Government and Medical institutions? We have not done any of these things, but that does not mean to say we have been resting on our laurels. Before the public can realise what has to be faced and met in the working of an institution of this kind it is necessary to give an outline of our position in the community and how we meet our various problems. By all recognised and registered institutions in this country we are considered taboo, those who associate themselves with us are to be pitied rather than helped. Whilst all other public institutions relying on voluntary contributions receive help in various ways, we have to rely entirely on our own efforts and stand up against much well-meaning but ignorant criticism. Red tape is in many cases a necessary evil, but it has now been allowed to increase its scope to such an extent that it threatens to exterminate by strangulation the very institutions it was intended to protect, institutions which are set up to help the public are forced by their own narrow and apparently unalterable rules to withhold assistance from a large section of their supporters because these people prefer a method of treatment which is not recognised because not understood by those governing them. We refer to such institutions as "The National Health Insurance", "The Hospital Savings Association", "The Hospital Sunday Fund," etc. Our applications for co-operation with these bodies always meet with the same response:—"We regret that our rules forbid us to co-operate with any but registered Hospitals." We are doing all we can to overcome this narrow-minded attitude. We have asked the institutions referred to to amend their rules and admit this institution to their list. It should not be their Executive bodies which decide the institutions which should be recognised, but their members who contribute to their Funds and 3
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