The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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e The entrance for the patients is by a door into the yaw
- from the north branch of Mount-pleasant—a street which,
- from its forming (by the way) almost a right angle with
- the same named street below, ought long since to have
- obtained a new cognomen. From the yard they are ad-
- mitted, by a porched door, into the Receiving Room, a
- comfortable apartment, painted green, with benches and
- forms, and (at this season) a good fire. This. is in itself
- a great improvement over what could he accomplished in
L, the old establishment, where, for want of room, the poor
; blind or affected in vision, who must be naturally anxious
t for advice and relief, were necessitated to " bide their

Se Auers o. ae man who
time" in the open air. been doing their work for them, forgetting that it was
Close to this room (which was previously one of the " the last straw that broke the camel's back." Could
two front parlours) is, across the hall or front passage, Mr. Rushton be so overloaded as to he made to do what
the Surgeon's Consulting Room, in which he receives three magistrates in London were paid for doing ?- He
the patients, inspects their peculiar diseases of eye or ear, was for having a Mayor's Court established, believing that
performs operations when necessary, and furnishes his the Mayor had no very onerous duties to discharge ; and
recipes for medicines or applications. The patients fur- in saying this he spoke from the experience of the past
nished with such documents pass homeward by a small year. He contended that the Liverpool magistrates were
and adjoining laboratory, where their prescriptions are cyphers, and that they ought to be elevated to the dis-
prepared, and, to avoid confusion (as the number of charge of such duties as rightly and properly fell to their
applicants is generally great), they depart by another lot, apart altogether from local knowledge or preconceived
door into the yard, if not received as in-patients. On the notions. He said that eighteen magistrates did the whole
same floor is the Matron's Room, and others. duty of the town of Birmingham, where there was a po-
On the next floor above, is the committee-room, over pulation of 200,000 inhabitants.
the consulting-room, and in other parts spacious bed- Mr. MORRIS said the time of the public should be con-
rooms for patients, with three neat and modernly-con- sidered, and that the establishment of a second court, tc,
structed bedsteads in each, well appointed with mattresses, be called the Mayor's Court, would relieve Mr. Rushton
bedding, -,Fcc., all peculiarly' clean and comfortable. We Of much of his arduous labours.
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were Innen sirucK, 'mew, oy Llle cleanliness and comfort Mr. AIKIN said he had reserved himself 'until that pe-
thoughout—indispensable requisites to that cheerfulness riod of the debate, for the purpose of replying to any re-
in the patients, which must be a strong auxiliary to the flection which might be made upon Mr. Rushton ; but no alerts of the medical officers. 'We were induc- reflection had been made, and it was universally admitted
ted by the very civil and assiduous matron into most of that he discharged his duties in the most admirable
the apartments. In one of them were seated, round a manner.

cheering fire, many of the male patients, who though with The MAYOR promised not to shrink from presiding in a-
their eyes bandaged, or partially so, and all of them no second court, should that be the wish of the Council. He
doubt in the expectation of comparatively speedy restora- was long in favour of the establishment of a second court,
tion to the " beams of day," rose from theirt seats at our but doubted the propriety of calling it a " Mayor's
entrance, and respectfully saluted us in their several ways. Court." He would rather that all the magistrates would
This we considered a high and affecting compliment to the join together in sharing the burthen,and he said he should
" management" of the institution. There is generally bring the subject before the magistrates at an early period.
but one window in each room and in each ward, and He promised to vote in favour of the increase, out of re-
these are more or less obscured by green Venetian blinds, spect to the recommendation made by the magistrates,
as the eyes of the patients in convalescence can bear the and the conviction he entertained of the able manner in
light. There are also day rooms and dormitories for fe- which Mr. Rushton discharged his duty
males, entirely

_ part from the males. In the third story, Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE 13C4ieved that the second court
or attic, we observed amongst other rooms, one large in Manchester had been found to work remarkably well_
room, an apartment with six beds, equally as well fur- He cordially agreed in all the eulogies passed upon -Mr.,
nished as those below, and all beautifully clean. Rushton : but if he discharged his duties well, he was
There are on the preluises hot, shower, and cold baths, only doing what was expected from him.
with every convenience for washing and cleansing the Mr. SANDS briefly replied.
person. Seventeen beds are in use, and thirty more could The Council then divided, when there appeared—

be made up, if the funds would permit. 'The average
number of Mr. Neill's consulting and in-door patients is,
we learn, 70 a-day, but this is sometimes greatly exceed-
ed. On Saturday se'nnight, he prescribed for no fewer Majority against it
than 126 applicants. Mr. Barrow, his able assistant, pre- The motion was consequently lost.
pares the medicine. The following gentlemen voted in the division .
During our very short visit, (not exceeding twenty mi- For the increase, Councillors—Messrs. R. Houghton,
nutes,) Mr. Neill, who happened to arrive, took the writer W. Rathbone, John Holmes, H. Hornby, J. Aikin, C.
of this into his consulting-room, and passed before him Robertson, . Earle, J. Booker, A. Lace, W. Watson,
about a dozen of his in-patients, variously afflicted with R. Benn R. Houghton. Aldermen—J. H. Turner ,
blindness, exhibiting the eyes of each, detailing the ope- Thomas gands, R. S. Crook, and the Mayor.
rations performed, and questioning them as to the state Against the increase, Councillors—Messrs. Thomas
of their eyes, the period they had been respectively under Shaw, W. Atherton, James Holme, James Stitt, C. S.,
treatment, &c. Their replies were most kindly, intelli- Middleton, T. Littledale, jun., J. Tyrer, J. A. 'Fume, T.
gent, and grateful, and we shall not soon forget the plea- Robinson, T. Toulmin, G. G. Hornby,T.__ll,ayden, J.
sing impression they left upon onr mind ; though we Cooper, J. N. Wood, S. Holme, J. Procter, W • Reade,
must say that his apparently rapid, but scientific, hand- Henry Danson, J. Parker, W. Bennett, R. L. Jones, W.
ling of their eye-lids was, from want of custom, painful to Mann, J. G. Morris, Aldermen—D. Hodgson, T. B.
us, though by no means, as it appeared, to them. Horsfall, R. Griffiths, Sir T. Brancker,Nicol,j,
We learn that between 300 and 400 useful mechanics, Bramley-Moore, W. P. Bushby, and T. Chilton.

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