ALCOHOL IN HOSPITAL.
(Extract from the “British Medical Journal,” 19th June, 1915.)
“At the annual meeting of the subscribers to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart, the Chairman of Direc tors, referred to the fact that during the past year, only £ 4c) 2s fid had been spent on alcoholic stimulants for its 7,237 inpatients. This works out at just over ijd per patient. In the year 1884, the expenditure was 7s qd per patient; in 1894, is 4d; in 1904, 7d per patient ; and in 1914, per patient. Sir Thomas reminded his hearers that the conviction had been growing that alcohol was not the valuable medicine it had once been con sidered to be. There were forty medical men on the Hospital Staff entitled to prescribe alcohol if they thought it necessary to do so, and it was, therefore, clear that the small consumption of alcohol was not due to any fads or opinions of certain members of the staff, but must be regarded as the outcome of the practice of medical men generally.” •••> ’ -
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 245, 18 November 1915, Page 15
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