The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-13 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL

The annual meeting of the Governors of the
Dorset County Hospital vim held gt the board-room
on Thursday afternoon. Henry Her Seymer, Hay.,
M.P. presided, in the absence of the Earl of
licher*, whose state of health, We regret to learn,
privented his attendance.
The Rev. C. W. BIN 011•31, chairman to the com•
mittee, read the report :
" Tbe committee present their 22nd report unaer •
deep impression of the great goodueu of God in having
supplied the means, by which they have been enabled
to meet the necessities of • very anxious and trying
year.
The pressure for admission during the greater part
of it hoe been beyond all former etpetiencg and, in
the present state of the Hospital, with • building gal-
Meetly large to acoommodate many more patients, it
has been sometimes very bard to refuse the urgent
applications, and to keep down their number to those
11011 L, which strict prudence might dictate. The
weekly average of hrpatiente has, eonsequently, been
raimd to 51 5.13, being precisely four more than the
weekly average of the former year, and nearly eight
beyond that of 1860. Thai many of the cases treated
have been highly critical may be inferred from the
enormously increased outlay for ' wine and spirits,' as
well as certain other articles of the ' domestic expendi-
ture.'

"Though the annual subscriptions, the committee
rejoice to say, have reached • higher anwunt than in
say preceding year, and the other sources of ordinary
memos have not been below the average, still nothing
could have saved us from serious financial difficulty
but the most kind and timely interposition of the Lord
Bishop of the Diocese in issuing • Peatoral Letter in
aid of the Ifoopital. C.:moldering the other loud call/
made upon the charity of the °minty a this time the
response which it received was far beyond the hopes
and anticipations of the committee, and they feel that
the best thanks of the Governors are due not only to
his lordship and the clergy but to each individual con•
tributor,
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final result is that, after paying a balance of
Cfr9 18s 6d. due to the treasurer, and funding the
legacy of £lOO from the late Mr. Samuel Crane, of
godnianstone, there remains a balance in hand of
EAR le. 8d

" It will become a serious question for the committee
bow far they may conaider the past year as exceptional,
and what steps they can take in order to make the
probable expenses more accurately ouincide with the
entisary bacons.
" The handsome and appropriate chapel erected by
the sole munificence if Robert Williams, Esq., of Bride-
head, was opened by the Lord Bishop on the 9th of
April, and has greatly contributed to the comfort of
all the inmates, whilst it may be regarJed as the final
completion of the building. The new ground, purchased
to the south of the Hospital, has been enclosed by a
subatantial and uniform will, and the soil will now be
levelled and thrown into the garden.
" Early In the year a melancholy circumstance
occurred in the death, within the Hospital, of the house
apothecary, Mr. Joseph Hockinj, after a few days
illness. His place has been supplied by the unanimous
election of a highly recommended successor, Mr. G. M.
Evans. *hose efficiency in every department of his
office has hitherto given unqualified satisfaction to the
oommittee. .

"Th. introduction of water from the borough water-
works having greatly reduced the labours of the out.
porter, an arrangement ham been made for employing one
porter only but, at no additional expense to the floe-
pital, • young man has been engaged, who under Mr.
Enan's able instruction, is qualifying himself for the
office of dispenser.
"Ones more the committee desire to express their
cordial thanks to the medical officer, for their kind and
laborious services. They regret to state that Dr. Cow.
dell Mu been suffering recently from severe illness.
Not least for the sake of the Hospital, but on every
mound, they heartily trust that it may please God
sptal ily to restore him.
What may be called the honaehold department has
not been without Its &penal trials this year, but they
have been met by our excellent matron with her chem.
teratie good sense and kindness, f6r which Ilse institu-
tion haa long been so deeply Indebted to her."
The report was unanimously adopted.
On the motion of the Rev. J. Fisher, 'wooded by
the Rev. J. R. Cree, the following gentlemisa were
appointed the committee for the ensuing year.—
Revd.. F. A. Baker, T. W. Knipe, T. L. Nash, H.
B. Williams, R. Ludlow. end T. A. name, Capt
Kindersley, G. W &try, rsq., and Messrs. J. Crane,
Levi Grovels, J. Ranaford, and 1). Symonds.
On the motiod of the Rev. e. W. Btugh•su, the
thanks of the meeting were given to Thomas
Coombe, Esq., for his put services, on that gentle-
man's retirement from the office of auditor.
Rev. C. W. Bingham proposed, and Mr. J. F.
Hodges seconded, that Mr. A. S. Mason he re-
quested to be Mr. Coemba's successor in the office
of auditor. . .

A vote of thanks to the medical offloers was unani-
mously given on the proposition of Capt. Kindersley,
and a vote of thanks being given to the Chairman,
the proceedings terminated.

BROADWEY.— Richard Burt and Alfred New.
bury were summoned before the magistrates at Doe.
chestier, on Saturday, for braising the windows of
William Coles, an agricultural labourer. The coin.
pleb:wit said that on New Year's.eve, a little before
seven o'clock, he was sitting down reading his book,
when some boys came and broke two panes of glain
with their hands. He ran out, but found they nad
run away. They came back about a qiuu-ter of an
hour or twenty minutes afterwards, mil struck the
window again. He then stood inside the door while
it wee on the jar, and beard three boys go "up
along," and then "down along," and than " up
!Jong" main, and then "down along" again, and
heard one Of them sey, " pow let us go and give it to
the door, and immediately a atone was thrown at
the door." He "pounced" upon them, and caught
Newbury, and brought him back. He then told
him that one of the boys was named Bart, but he
did not know the other. In crose-examination 0001-
plainmt said his shutters were up, and said he pro-
mised to forgive Newbury if be gave him the names
of the other boys. Five panes had been broken in
all, at different times, end the noes was Is. 3d. The
Court ordered this boys to pay the la. 3d. damages
and costa

WEYMOLJTH.—A Boo• Hawses AND His
Cuirrounisi. -At the Weymouth County Court on
Teuracley, two young men, officers of H. 1.1. Customs,
named Plunkett and Charles, were defendant' in an
action brought by Messrs. Blackie and Son, the
well-known publishers at Glasgow. —Mr. Howard
appeared for the plaintiffs.- -The case against Plunkett
wee first heard. From the evidence it appeared
that on the Ist September leak George hiratlF,
commisaion agent for soliciting order§ for plaintiffs'
works, published in numbers, saw defendant and
induced him to take • work, and Ingo the following
contract in his order book.—" I hereby subscribe
for one copy of the Imperial Dictionary, in parts, at
2& 6d. each, a part to be delivered every two
months, or as published, according to the terms in
the prospectus with part first.—R. J. Plunkett,
Customhouse Officer, 16, Oakley-place, Ist Septem-
ber, 1662. All books to be paid for on delivery."
One number was left with him, for which he paid.
When, however, George Reed, another agent for the
Messrs. /Mackie called to deliver the second number,
the defendant declined to receive it, and hence
the present action. The defence was that he (the
defendant) told Priestly at the time he subscribed to
the work, that he would take the first number to see
how he liked it, and that if he approved of it, he
would subscribe for the whole, but that if he did not
he should not take any more. He signed the con•
tract alter he bad taken the first number and paid
for it—filling up the blanks in the oontract with his I
own handwriting. He merely signed the contract
to get rid of the man, as be kept tooting him to do
so, and become he understood from Priestly, that he
was at liberty to give up the book if be chose to do
so. Had he been aware that he should have been
brought there, he would have been more careful in
reading the contract before he signed it—what he
filled in was at Priestly's dictation. A few days
after be had signed the book, he saw Priestly and
told him he should not take any more numbers as it
was a very dear way to take in a book, and be could
get the work at half the price charged. About two
months afterwards Reed came to himo with the
second part, and he (defendant) told him that he had
countermanded the ordiw. The cam against Charles
was next beard.—Mr. Howard, as in the former
case, appearing for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Hare
appeared for the defendrot The same evidence was
given, with the additimi that when the order was
glee.,
uoths defendant wile on board the Aquila In the
r. There was a large number of persona
preeent, and defendant was doing nothing. When
airwomen obtehted an ardor, they got the Arty