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MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.
ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.
Hospital, 45 Scott Street, Garnethill.
Dispensary, 11 West Graham Street.
Patronesses, H.R.H. Princess Louise, Marchioness
of Lome, and H.R.H. Princess Christian. Office-
bearers for 1898 — President, the Duke ef Montrose,
K.T.; vice-presidents, Lord Overtoun and Dr. H. C.
Cameron; directors, Dr. James B. Russell, J. Thomson,
W. R. Macg^orge, R. Philips, J. D. Hedderwick, David
Tullis, T. Carlile, and J. G. Chrystal ; hon. secretary
and treasurer, Alan E. Clapperton, 91 West Regent
St.; hon. medical officers — physicians, Dr. James
Finlayson and Dr. Samson Gemmell ; extra phjsi-
cian, Dr. George S. Middleton; surgeons, Dr. T.
Kennedy Dalziel, Mr. R. H. Parry; pathologist, Dr.
Joseph Coats; aurist, Dr. Thomas Barr; oculist,
Dr. Thomas Reid; dispensary physicians, Dr. J.
Lindsay Steven, Dr. R. S. Thomson, Dr. R. M.
Buchanan, Dr. R. Barclay Ness, Dr. J. B. Mackenzie
Anderson, Dr. W. K. Hunter, and Dr. Alice J.
M'Laren; dispensary surgeons, Dr. Henry Rutherfurd,
Dr. G. Ritchie Thomson, Dr. J. H. Niooll, Dr. J. H.
Pringle, and Dr. James Luke ; aurist, Dr. J. Walker
Downie ; oculist, Dr. C. Fred. Pollock ; dentist, Mr.
Kees Price.
The objects of this institution are the medical and
surgical treatment of poor children suffering from non-
infectious diseases or accidents ; to provide a dis-
pensary and furnish advice and medicine to those
who cannot be received into the hospital ; to pro-
mote the advancement of medical science with refer-
ence to the diseases of children ; and to provide for
the clinical instruction of students, the training of
nurses for children during illness, and the instruction
erf lady pupils in the care of sick children. The hos-
pital, which has now eighty beds, and the dispen-
sary are entirely supported by voluntary contribu-
tions. Patients admitted to the hospital on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, between 10 and
11 a.m., on production of an order signed by a
subscriber. Accidents or urgent cases admitted at
any hour by day or night without an order. Friends
admitted to see patients on Wednesdays, from 9 to
9.30 a.m., and Sundays, from 2.30 to 3 p.m. Visitors
admitted to the hospital on Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m., but
Wednesdays and Saturdays are preferable.
The Dispensary is open daily at 10 a.m. for the
treatment of outdoor patients. No line is required
for the dispensary, it is enough that the child is sick
and poor.
THE GLASGOW HOSPITAL FOR SKIN
DISEASES.— 8 Elmbank Street.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., patron; The
Right Hon. Lord Overtoun, president; Jas. A. Camp-
bell of Stracatbro, M.P., vice-president; Sir James
Bell, Bart, ex-Lord Provost of Glasgow, Very Rev.
Principal Caird, D.D., Rev. Professor Charteris, D.D.,
Wm. Jamieson, Sir James King, Bart., ex-Lord
Provost, William Ker, Robert Gourlay, Geo. M'Call,
Col. J. M. Denny, M.P., Sir Chas. Tenoant, Bart.,
Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart., M.P., extraordinary
directors ; James Grahame (chairman), Charles M.
King, Hickson Fergusson, J. Pirrie, Hugh B. Crum,
Robert Maconechy, Brigadier General Sir Donald
MathesoD, K.C.B., D. M. Crerar- Gilbert, and the
physician, treasurer, and secretary for the time being,
ordinary directors; Prof. M'Call Anderson, physician;
J. Wyllie Nicol, M.B., assistant physician; Archibald
Craig, LL.B., 156 St. Vincent Street, hon. secretary;
A. S. M'Clelland, 115 St. Vincent St., bon. treasurer.
Gratuitous advice to the poor afflicted with diseases
of the skin and hair, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at 2 o'clock p.m. In connection with the
Hospital two wards for skin diseases are provided in
the Western Infirmary, to which the directors have power
to send the more serious cases. Upwards of 47,000
patients have been treated since the foundation of the
Hospital. A practical course for students is held i
during the winter and summer sessions. The Hospital
is entirely supported by voluntary contributions.
JOINT HOSPITAL (KNIGHTSWOOD) FOR
THE BURGH OF PARTICK, AND FOR?
PART OF THE DISTRICT ADDED TO THE;
CITY OF GLASGOW.
Board of Directors: — George Green, Alexander
Wood, John Grant, James Caird, William Mdler,
and Thomas Logan, representatives of the burgh of
Partick; A. A. Cuthbert, James Dick, Archibald
Kerr, J. C. Robertson, and R. S. Brown, repre-
sentatives of the City of Glasgow. J. M. Taylor,
writer, 180 St. Vincent St., secretary and treasurer;
Iain Clerk, M.B., resident medical officer; Miss Jane
Stuart, matron.
GLASGOW SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOR
WOMEN.
Coplaw Street, off Victoria Road, S.S.
Telephone No. 1533.
President, Lord Blythswood, of Blythswood;
vice-presidents, Lord Overtoun, Sir James King,
Bart., LL.D. ; secretary and treasurer, Thomas
Macquaker, writer, 89 West Regent street ; consulting
physician. Dr. Samuel Sloan; consulting surgeon,
Prof. D. N. Knox, M.D. ; surgeons, J. Stuart Nairne,
F.R.C.S.Ed., John Ed^ar, M.A., B.Sc, M B.C.M.;
assistant surgeons, J. N. Stark, M.D., A. W. Russell,
M.D. ; physicians, Geo. Halket, M.D., David Tinda',
M.D. ; assistant physicians, George Bell Todd, M.B.,
CM., Alexander Rankin, M.D.; anaesthetist, John
M'Conville, M.D. ; pathologist, Hugh Gait, M.D. ;
resident house surgeon, Dr. Edith Goodrich; matron,
Miss Morton; dispensary department, Drs. J. Nigel
Stark, George Bell Todd, A. W. Russell, Alex.
Rankin, J. C. Howie, Alice F. M'Laren, G. W. Thom-
son, E. Dorothea Lyness, Alice L. Cumming, David
Lamb, J. T. West, H. L. G. Leask, and J. M. Camp-
bell.
The objects of this Institution, which is entirely sup-
ported by voluntary contributions, are (1) to provide
for the free medical and surgical treatment of women
afflicted with disease, and more especially with disease
peculiar to their sex, unsuitable for the wards of a
general infirmary, and to provide a dispensary and
furnish advice and medicine to those who cannot be
received into the hospital ; (2) to promote the ad-
vancement of medical and surgical science with
reference to diseases of women, and to provide for
the efficient instruction of students in this depart-
ment of medical knowledge ; and (3) to educate and
train women in the special duties of women's nurses.
Patients admitted to the hospital on Mondays, Tues-