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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 60

[rules]

1. The Hospital will afford gratuitously surgical and medical aid to any person requiring it, irrespective of creed, country, or color; but any person who shall be admitted under any circumstances, and shall be found able to pay, shall be required to do so according to his or her means a sum not exceeding £2 per week.

2. The Hospital shall be managed by a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Committee of sixteen, all of whom shall be elected annually, at the annual general meeting in the month of January in each year, by duly qualified subscribers.

3. At the annual general meeting of duly qualified subscribers, to be held in the month of January in each year, two Auditors (not members of Committee) shall be appointed to act during the ensuing year.

4. Should any vacancy occur in any of the above-named offices, the same shall be filled at the next ensuing general meeting of subscribers; but in all cases, except those of President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary, the Committee is empowered to temporarily fill such vacancies.

5. The Committee shall direct the collection and distribution of funds, appoint and dismiss all paid officers and servants (with the exception of the Medical Superintendent), frame regulations for the management of the Hospital, present a report to the annual general meeting; and may, from amongst themselves, from time to time appoint Committees for any purposes which in their page 6 opinion would be better regulated and managed by means of such Committees, and it may fix a quorum of such Committees, and may continue, alter, or discontinue such Committees. The Committee will have the power to suspend the Medical Superintendent for misconduct or neglect of duty, and temporarily to fill up the same, subject to the approval of the majority of the subscribers, to be called in accordance with the Hospital Act.

6. The Committee shall meet for general business on the third Tuesday in each month, and at such time and place as it may from time to time appoint; and special meetings shall be convened by the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, or Secretary, upon the requisition of not less than three members of Committee. At any meeting five members shall form a quorum, and in the absence of the President or Vice-President, one of the members present shall be elected to act as Chairman.

7. That every contributor of the sum of £10 10s. in one sum shall be a Life Governor, with the privilege of voting at all meetings of subscribers; and every person raising in any one year the sum of £20 and upwards, and every other person elected at a general meeting of Governors, at the recommendation of the Committee, in consideration of special services rendered to the institution, shall be respectively Honorary Life Governors, with all the rights and privileges of Life Governors.

8. Duly qualified subscribers entitled to vote at all meetings of subscribers to this Hospital shall mean those persons only who subscribe annually the sum of sterling.

9. Accidents, and such cases as may be deemed of decided emergency by the Medical Officer in attendance, shall be received at any time; and in ordinary cases patients shall be admitted daily (Sundays excepted) on the recommendation of a subscriber of at least sterling for the then current year, and also one of the Committee.

10. No child under five years of age, insane person, or one afflicted with venereal disease, or any person who page 7 in the opinion of the Medical Officer in attendance is unfit for an in-door patient, shall be received under any circumstances whatever; and no female shall be received for the purposes of confinement except in cases of special emergency or distress, and then only on a warrant signed by the Medical Attendant or any three members of Committee. No person afflicted with any infectious disease shall be admitted into the Hospital, except to such separate and detached wards as may be erected for the purpose. But destitute persons suffering from such contagious diseases as would prevent them from becoming in-patients of the Hospital shall be treated as out-patients (subject to such regulations as the Committee may from time to time direct).

11. A House Committee of three shall be appointed by the Committee, and shall meet at least once a month, and visit the Hospital for the purpose of inspecting the arrangements thereof, and of inquiring of the patients if they are properly attended to, and report in writing to the next meeting of the Committee any alterations or suggestions they may think necessary.

12. If any member of the Committee shall absent himself from three consecutive monthly meetings without sufficient excuse, he shall be disqualified, and another shall be appointed in his stead, if the Committee think fit; and any person contracting with the Hospital shall be disqualified from being a member of the Committee.

13. No person who is a salaried officer or servant of the institution shall be allowed to vote at any meeting of duly qualified subscribers of the same; and no liabilities shall be incurred without the express sanction of the Committee; nor shall any moneys be paid unless accompanied by the proper vouchers.