Infirmaries were supported by a tax of the king levied on nearby counties.
Some infirmaries were for the insane, who were generally thought to be possessed by the devil or demons.
To give a description of all the hospitals, infirmaries and dispensaries in this country would fill volumes.
There are also ninety-seven county hospitals, infirmariesand dispensaries[1145].
Nine American Red Cross infirmaries were operated at base ports and along the lines of communication for our doughboys.
All of these last passed through the Red Cross infirmaries on the embarkation docks.
Some weeks before the war, I was called to the ministry, where they asked me to have two hundred infirmaries ready for all possible happenings.
To the hospitals there have been added since the month of August, 1914, the infirmaries and station cantines where our soldiers receive the nourishment and hot drinks which are necessary for their long journeys.
Poor Law infirmaries are suffering ailments of some kind or other due to want of proper nourishment.
He obtained this figure by estimating the number of people forced into workhouseinfirmaries or requiring the outside attendance of the parish doctor owing to sickness solely caused by slumdom.
The treatment they receive in the infirmaries and jails is always of necessity unsuited to their condition, and is often atrocious.
It is probable that in this way such patients can be supported at less expense to the people of the State than in infirmaries and jails.
By reason of their investigations and reports, important improvements were introduced into the infirmaries and jails of the State, and the general efficiency of our penal and reformatory system was increased.
It is officially estimated that three hundred soldiers' orphans, during the past year, have been inmates of the county infirmaries of the State.
There is an even greater work to be accomplished in Workhouse Infirmaries than in Hospitals.
First let me say that Workhouse sick and Workhouse Infirmaries require quite as much care as (I had almost said more than) Hospital sick.
If the hospitals and infirmaries were almost wholly in the hands of the monks and churchmen, there was little hope for the development of other than ecclesiastical mental healing.
Through all those succeeding centuries, even through the rudest, hospitals and infirmaries sprang up along this blessed stream.
The places where medicine, such as it thus became, could be applied, were at first mainly the infirmaries of various monasteries, especially the larger ones of the Benedictine order: these were frequently developed into hospitals.
Smith on Metropolitan Workhouse Infirmaries and Sick Wards, in House of Commons, No.
In the Metropolis, owing to the development of the infirmaries into general hospitals, and the working of the Common Poor Fund, the rise was more considerable, viz.
As early as 1879 a president could (perhaps with some ministerial optimism) declare that: "in the newinfirmaries I have succeeded in abolishing pauper help almost entirely.
The Management of the Infirmaries of the Strand Union, the Rotherhithe and the Paddington Workhouses (1867?
Incredible as this statement at first appears, the statistics of hospitals and in infirmaries confirm it, and the causes are not far to seek.
The testimony of the physicians whose work lies among them, or in the infirmaries to which they come, cannot be impugned.
At Ely and Canterbury the Norman infirmaries were divided by stone arcades and clerestoried; while at Gloucester and Peterborough there are substantial remains of aisled infirmaries of the thirteenth century.
Precautions were taken, the infected families were removed to the infirmaries and their houses walled up, but all this was done at night in order not to excite alarm.
The Grand Master who had to meet this tremendous danger was Jean Parisot de la Valette, a brave and resolute man, as noted for his piety and tenderness to the sick in the infirmaries as for his unflinching courage.
Colored physicians all over the South may send or bring their surgical cases here and get every advantage that can be provided by the best first-class hospitals and infirmaries all over the country.
He placed at Bagdad an asylum for the insane open to all believers; and there was a large number of public infirmaries for the sick without payment in that city.
Poor-law infirmaries lack, however, the stimulus and the checks and advantages which impartial criticism continuously applied brings to a great voluntary hospital.
All of you must visit the infirmariesand distribute the gifts.
I learned last night that although your dinner there was a great success yesterday, still there are many poor creatures, both men and women, who are in the infirmaries and could not attend.
The Detention Colonies could not be expected to yield satisfactory results if they were handicapped with inmates of this kind, who belong rather to infirmaries than to workshops.
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