The First Labour Hospital
1921 1921 1920s 8 pages 5 It is registered as a Benevolent Society, and nobody can make any profit out of it. INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP. — Entrance fee, one shilling, covering cost of membership card, and places member in immediate benefit. Weekly contribution, one penny. No other charges of a...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : Co-operative Printing Society Ltd.
1921
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| Summary: | 1921
1921
1920s
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5 It is registered as a Benevolent Society, and nobody can make any profit out of it. INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP. — Entrance fee, one shilling, covering cost of membership card, and places member in immediate benefit. Weekly contribution, one penny. No other charges of any description. BULK MEMBERSHIP. — Trade Unions, either Nationally, by Districts, Group Branches or separate Branches, Co-operative Societies, Clubs (Club and Institute Union), Works Committees, etc., may take up "Beds," which secures control of same and Management Representation. CONTROL. A practical system of sound democracy through District Committees and Area Council, elected by vote of the workers, places their representatives on its Board of Management, which controls the entire policy of the Hospital. Quite a unique factor is the Patients' Committee (comprised of representatives elected from each Ward by the Patients), who meet weekly and, in conjunction with the House Committee (a sub-section of the Management Committee), decide such adjustments and improvements as may be considered necessary and advisable. VOLUNTARY TESTIMONIALS FROM PATIENTS. The following are taken quite haphazard and could be duplicated many times over (originals may be examined). TWO NORTHERN MEMBERS. 1st June, 1921. "I have now completed four weeks' residence in this the most beautiful suburb of mighty London, with, I believe, some success. When I realise what this place is doing and what it means to the working men of the North, the more I recognise the importance for keeping it going on. This Hospital stands for the working men's ailments, what the club Convalescent Homes stand for him when he is getting well again. The need to support the one is as great, if not greater, than the need to support the other, and through the lamentable coal dispute and the concurrent bad time this Hospital is suffering to an extent which is causing the management the liveliest alarm. I would appeal to all who are not yet subscribing that they begin immediately to do so. The surgeons are the pick of London; the nurses are true-hearted women. A democratic Hospital, the property of the workers. I write as one who knows. "(Signed) JOHN HASWELL." " I have returned quite 50 per cent. better, in fact feeling as though there was nothing wrong with me now. Before I entered the Hospital I was unable to do anything for myself, and could not lift the tea-pot off the hob, but before I was discharged from the Hospital I was able to serve the tea out to the other patients; and everything was due to the treatment in London. There are lots of things I can tell about the many cures which were effected and which I saw. Anything which I can do to help on this very excellent work will be gladly undertaken. "(Signed) W.H. MILLS." Two LONDON MEMBERS. "GENTLEMEN, "November 1st, 1920. "Just a line thanking you for your kind treatment I received at the Manor House Hospital, Hampstead, after undergoing a risky operation for hernia, which was successfully carried out by the gentlemen concerned that performed such operation, and the kindness and the treatment I received at the hands of the doctors and sisters and nurses of B. Ward is worthy of great praise.
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