CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 238

In his reply Dr Atkinson said that

le was unaware

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permission

required, and that the

offect of the concert was to

give pleasure to 52 (out of 71) patients who would

be able to attend, and to more general

promote a

-public interest in the welfare

of the hospital; and the

Answered the most obvious

objection by the statement that

the concert was to be

in a

given

new wing of the hospitat, which was isolated from the

rest

Ust, and had not get

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been used.

Be further stated that each

Conarts were common

London hospitate, and that he had attended such even in

wards adjacent to those

occu

cupied by patients.

of these were warks in which there were, or

were liable

to be, patients in a critical Condition

:tion, the proceeding appears

to me & have been a

verz

questionable one; and in any case the precedent did not seem to me as desirable of adoption