The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-11-25 00:00:00

SATIIMAY,I NOTEVIDER 26,187 r

The annual reported congratulated the supporters of
the hospital on its continued prosperity. During the
year 430 patients had been received, making a total of
1,818 since the opening of the institution. The annual
subscriptions had fallen off a little, but the Hospital
Saturday and Sunday were successful. In the year just
closed these amounts had been £744 15s 10d and £373
5s 9d respectively. By the kindness of the Earl of
Dudley, and the energy of the Castle Fetes Committee,
the large sum of £4ll 6s 5d had fallen to the hospital,
and this had been invested for the permanent benefit of
the hospital. The family of the late Mr. A. B. Cochrane
had sent a donation of £2,350 for the purpose of pro-
viding poor patients with clothes and othet necessaries
on leaving the hospital; for payment of cab fares for
convalescent patients ; to assist deserving nurses to
recruit their health by visiting sanatoriums at the sea-
side or elsewhere; and the subscription of certain
amounts to sanatoriums, in ord•-ir that the committee
might have tickets to Bind patients or nurses there, the
former to have the preference ; the selection of persons
to be left with the medical officers, and the trustees to
be able to devote the principal and interest to the
general purposes of the funds of the hospital if at any
time circumstances prevent the money being usefully
employed in the objects previously set forth ; the fund
to be called "The late Alexander Brodie Cochrane
Memorial Fund." The report concluded with the thanks
of the committee to the various hiendly societies,
promoters of concerts, &c.
The report was adopted.
The financial report showed £55 15s 3d against the
hospital.
The report of the medical officer (which was received
and adopted) showed thet during the year there had been
486 patients, and of those 409 were dtscharged cured or
relieved ; 26 had died, and the remainder were in the
hospital. The mortality of medical cases had been 1.64
per cent , and in the surgical cases 370 per cent. 72
operations had been performed, with but 2 deaths.
This report expressed the obligations which the medical
officers felt towards Mr. Orwin, the resident surgeon,
for his valuable assistance, and for the manner in which
he had maintained the discipline in the wards and per-
formed his other onerous duties. Miss Wyman, the
matron, also deserved eulogy for the manner in which
the general comfort of the inmates had been attended
to.

The subscribers then passed votes of thanks to the
Weekly Board, the medical staff, the hon. chaplain,
the clergy and ministers, employers and employed
who had subscribed, to the Earl of Dudley, aed the
Castle Fetes Committee. _ _

A special vote was passed to the family of the late
Ur. A. B. Cochrane; and after some formal business,'
the meeting terminated.

and moral. At the time of the Reform Bill of 1867,
their constitution became very decidedly democratic,
and at one time, as every one there ought to remember
—because no one pointed it out more strongly than Mr.
Lowe, a former member for Kidderminster—it became
more necessary than ever that class of men commonly
denominated working men should be educated up to a
higher standard than ever before, simply because in
their hands rested the Government of this great
country. A great many people might argue that in
these times a democracy was the beat form of govern-
ment but if they were to have a democracy, it ought to
be an educated and enlightened democracy. With a
large preponderance of their constituencies and of their
voters, men not 11..01 to habits of self-sacrifice and self-
restraint, it was certain they would have successive.
Governments whose policy would be weak and
vacillating, who would not have any guiding principle
before them, and who would be perpetually harassed by
the fear or capricious transfer of power. Well, he did
not say they were in that state at present in England ;
he did not think they were quite so bad as that; but the
standard of education among the great mass of their
voters was decidedly too low, and it was the object of
institutions like that to raise, so far as their humble
and limited means might go, the standard of education.
He had had some little experience among all classes of
voters in that county, which was a very representative
county, and he had found the educational standard
deplorably low, not only in the agricultural districts,
but in other parts. There was no difficulty in ascertain-
ing whether a voter was Liberal or a Conservative; but
he was sorry men very often could not give an intelligent
reason why they were Liberals or why they were Con-
sertativ.ei. (Laughter.) The argument was applicable
40 all times, but he thought they could draw an illustra-
tion from the present very critical state in which this
country found itself. They were at present in a some-
what uncertain and dubious position with regard to that
unpleasant question called the Eastern question; and he
could not help thinking that some of the uncertainty in
which they found themselves involved was mainly owing
to the very imperfect acquaintance which the great body
of voters—he was alluding not only to the lower class of
voters, but to other classes—had with the whole history
and geography of the Eastern question. They had an
imperfect acquaintance with the aims and character of
the people with whom this country was dealing, and
with their political and religious institutions. He
believed the country had a vague general idea of what it
wished to be done, and not to be done ; but there was
such ignorance upon the matter, people were so vague as
to what they wanted carried out, that there was a want
of outspokenness on the question, and he could not help
thinking the Government found themselves without that
popular guidance which they ought always to have, and
did not know what they were going to do, or what to-
morrow might bring forth. He hoped the country would
not find themselves in the end in the position that they
were committed to a war in favour of one side or the
other, and at the same time hampered by a divided and
distracted state of public opinion. If so, he believed it
would be in consequence of the uninstructed state of
public opinion at home, and the consequent darkness in
which the Government found themselves on this ques-
tion. There was no doubt, if this was not a question of
foreign politics, but related to trade or labour, they
should, find the Government often and sharply reminded
as to the public interests, and guided by the light of
public opinion. He only wished on foreign matters peli-
lieg,opinion was equally well marked. Of course, there
was a long distance between the encouragement of
working men's clubs and institutes and the formation of
a sound political education in this country; but he did
think they were doing something towards the forznatiou
of sound political and social opinion by the means ef
such institutions. As to the moral advantages the',
hoped for from them they were too obvious and trite to
dwell on; but he hoped the day would come when these
clubs would be as great a bulwark against the nationA
evil of intemperance, as he believed benefit clubs ought
to be a bulwark against pauperism. He trusted that
some day they should find every respectable member of
the workmen's class belonging to one of these clubs,
and getting any reasonable refreshment he might
require there. When that was the case, and not till
then, they should be relegating the public-houses to
what he believed to be their proper functions, in the
entertainment of;casual sojourners.
Mr. G. W. Hastings (Worcester) responded to the
toast, and said he was one of those who believed in meet'
ings of the kind held that day, and he thought he might
be taken as a good witness in the matter, for if there
was anyone who ought to be tired of them it was hire'
self. (Laughter.) He had attended the meetings of
the kind for a great number of years, and his reason for
believing in them was because he had seen the admirable
results. The bringing together of men interested in the
same objects from different parts of the country, or of
the same county, was always productive of good. TIIB
ideas of one corrected and encouraged the endeavours
of the other, and in the long run they all gained 1)1
being brought into contact with their fellows. Th°
great value of clubs and institutes of that kind was that
they were able to take up first the boys, and then the
young men and adults, from the period when they left
school, and they induced them to pay attention to their
intellectual culture, and then to their social culture
education was not a mere matter of obtaining a eereiin
amount of literary knowledge—it was really the obtain
jog the knowledge which would lead them well in this
life, and guide them to something better in the life to
come. He ventured to think that societies of that kind
afforded some of the best means of obtaining that end'
Alluding to the late Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Hastings men'
tioned that he was present when his lordship attended 0
meeting of the council of that association, and he
believed it was the last he attended in the county. kit
was a witness to the state of illness in which he was 5'
the time, and he never knew an instance of greater
devotion to the public good than Lord Lyttelton atteha'
lug that meeting under such circumstances. Notwith•
standing this, after the close of the meeting, finding the
secretary (Mr. Lawson), who himself was unwell, lied :
number of letteis ta answer, he said, "Give me half, tini
I will answer them." He might truly say he die.
giving an instance of that which he had practised all Li'
life—the moat generous consideration for others and the
utmost sacrifice of his own comfort.
The Rev. W. Walters proposed the " Local Inset"
tutes," and thanked the officers for the reception Wel
had given to the union.
The Rev. G. D. Boyle responded, and in the course
his remarks drew attention to the trashy and OM
literature of a eheap kind of which there was so in"bi
in circulation. He confessed he sometimes tremble°
for the future when he thought of the consequences t..
which this might lead, and he trusted the delegate!
would strive to do something to remedy this taste
literature of the class he referred to, and to eultivo:
an appreciation for literature of a pure and wholesoine
kind.
Mr. M. Corbet also responded.
Mr. J. Brinton proposed the health of the presideot!
and his Lordship taping replied, the proceedings terrel
nated.

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