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INSTITUTIONS
1814
MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.
THE GLASGOW CANCER AND SKIN
INSTITUTION.
10 Newton Terrace, Charing Cross.
P.O. and National Telephone No. 4158.
Consulting Hours, 11 to 1 and 3 to 5 p.m.
"The Institution has now entered on its twenty-
fifth year of usefulness. During the last twenty-
four years 2519 patients were treated for Cancer
(723 males and 1796 females), and 18,362 patients
suffering from Diseases of the Skin."
The outstanding features of the Institution con-
tinue to be: — (1) The advancement of the
healing art in relation to the treatment of Cancer
and allied diseases, by preserving the continuity of ac-
credited remedies hitherto in use, and adopting such
others as increasing knowledge and experience prove
worthy of confidence — with the view of obviating, if not
altogether superseding, the use of the knife. In other
words, the Therapeutic treatment of Cancer as dis-
tinguished from the operative. (2) Affording isolation
and privacy to patients — particularly to women —
whose aversion to any exposure or publicity in their
treatment not only accounts for much of the delay
and suffering endured by them before seeking relief,
but is answerable for the large number of hopeless
patients that have to be dealt with from day to day.
As hitherto, the Institution is conducted and main-
tained on the principle that all patients pay according
to their circumstances.
Directors — John Gill, Esq , S.S.C., Thos. Lawson,
Esq., D. Anderson, Esq., &c.
Surgeon to the Institution — Dr. Hugh Murray,
F.F.P.S.G., late senior and consulting surgeon to the
Glasgow Cancer Hospital.
Secretary — D. Macniven, 10 Newton Terrace.
Treasurer — William D. Baird, Clydesdale Bank
Buildings, 342 Argyle Street.
The Directors earnestly appeal for Subscriptions,
Donations, and Legacies on behalf of the funds of
the Institution.
GLASGOW PUBLIC DISPENSARY.
54 Dundas Street, City.
The Glasgow Public Dispensary was instituted in
1876 for the purpose of giving gratuitous medical
advice to persons in necessitous circumstances, and is
conducted by various medical officers each giving
advice in a special department of disease to which he
has devoted himself. The Institution is supported
by voluntary contributions, but advice being grat-
uitous, it is expected that those of the patients who
are able will contribute something towards the cost
of medicine supplied.
The Nurses connected with the Institution attend
gratuitously the confinements of poor women in their
own homes. Last year 270 cases were attended.
Cliniques are conducted for the following dis-
eases : — Skin, Ear, Throat, and Women.
Directors— A. Hewat, Esq., J.P., Archd. Hamilton,
Esq., George D. Wright, Esq., Dr. A. D. Stewart ;
auditors, Black, Stewart & Co., C. A., Hope Street ;
hon. secretary, John Baird, Esq., writer, 173 I St.
Vincent Street.
GLASGOW MATERNITY AND WOMEN'S
HOSPITAL— Rottenkow.
The objects of this institution are — (1) To attend
to women in the hospital, and also at their own
homes during their confinement ; (2) to treat gynse-
cologica 1 eases, and to provide a training school in
practical obstetrics for medical students, ladies' nurses,
and niidwives ; (3) a large and fully-equipped'
addition to the hospital, on the most approved
principles, has just been erected, in which the
obstetrical and gynaecological work is carried on, and
the former building is now chiefly used as nurses'
quarters. Patients in labour are admitted at once on
application at the hospital without any recommenda-
tion. A committee of ladies visit the hospital and
assist the directors.
The directors have opened a branch place of call
at 409 St. Vincent Street. Patients are not received
into it, but are attended to from it at their own homes.
The medical staff, both on the obstetric and
gynaecological sides, are the leading physicians in
these departments in the city, and physicians attend
to out-door cases when necessary in the various
quarters of the city.
Miss Lawson, matron ; John M. MacLeod, 149 W.
George Street, hon. treasurer; Arthur Forbes, 146
Buchanan Street, secretary ; Wm. M'Crindle, cashier;
Wm. Hill, house superintendent? Ben. B. Mac-
kinnon, collector.
The number of women who derived the benefit of
this institution during the past year was 4734.
Donations to the building fund and increased
annual subscriptions are urgently needed.
THE GLASGOW HEALTH CULTURE SOCIETY.
The Society has been formed to promote a know-
ledge of the natural means by which health may be
attained and maintained.
Lectures, Library (750 volumes), Rambles, Swim-
ming, and Exercise classes, &c. Full particulars,
and pamphlet " How to be Healthy," may be obtained
from the honorary secretary, C. W. D. Conacher, 51
Grant Street.
GLASGOW WOMEN'S PRIVATE HOSPITAL.
27 West Cumberland Street.
Convener, Mrs. D. M. Ross, 12 Bowmont Gardens;
hon. secy., Miss Bannerman, 19 Lilybank Gardens;
hon. treasurer, R. G. Napier, C.A., 121 St Vincent
Street. Matron, Miss M. R. M'Lean.
Object: — The treatment of women patients by
doctors of their own sex. The Home is intended for
gentlewomen of limited means, those in lodgings and
those who, while uaable to be treated in their own
homes, yet cannot afford the expense of an ordinary
nursing home.
The scale of fees ruas from 10s. 6d. to 42s. per
week, and for the latter sum the private room may
be obtained.