The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL,

On Friday a special meeting of the trustees of this
hospital was held at the Clarendon-rooms, to determine
upon alterations which had been submitted in the general
rules. The attendance was pretty numerous.
Mr. R. E. HARVEY, (who was called to the chair,)
stated that, at a prior meeting of the trustees, as stated in
the advertisement calling the meeting, it had been pro-
posed by Mr. Banner, that the honorary medical officers
without the boundary of the borough should no longer be
coosi•leredlai attached to the institution; on the motion of
Dr. Carson, " that the direction of the institution should
be placed in the hand of a committee, consisting of pre-
sident, three other officers, and twenty other trustees, to
be elected at the annual meeting, and two members of the
medical board, a physician and surgeon, each member of
the board occupying the situation in rotation four months
in the year ;" and " that in case of the temporary absence
of a physician or surgeon, one of the consulting physicians
or surgeons should be requested by the house surgeon to
take the duties of the absentee until his return; that the
consulting physicians and surgeons shall be members of
the medical board ; that the consulting physicians shall be
summoned to the medical consultations, and the con-
sulting surgeons shall be summoned to the surgical con-
sultations."

Mr. J. N. BANNER stated he had been misrepresented
as regarded his proposition, and was not actuated by in-
terested motives. His object was to secure to the poor
patients a better attendance of medical men. At present
there were three phys clans and three surgeons, a number
which he considered inadequate, if they did not constantly
attend. All he wanted from that meeting was, that they
would permit the consulting medical off ers, in cases of
emergency, to take that upon themselves which they ought
to do, and their services might be made available without
affecting the character or feelings of those taking ti,e ac-
tive department. The duties of the house surgeons were
too great and too responsible. moved a resolution in
accordance with the advertisement. This was not
seconded.

The CHAIRMAN then brought forward a resolution
which had been proposed by Dr. Carson, and read a letter
addre,sed to the chairman of the committee of the H oFpi-
tat on the subject, signed by several of the medical officers.
It conveyed resolutions of the medical board, stating the
object they wished to attain at that meeting of the trus-
tees—that of having one physician and one surgeon ap-
pointed to co-operate f,r the general interests of the
institution, &c.

Dr. CARSON said, that in cor sequence of certain pro-
ceedings at the medical board since the last meeting, and
also of the persevering objections of the committee to the
arrangement he had proposed, he should withdraw his
motion, but in doing so did not give up one iota of his
conviction of the correctness of the principle which be
advocated, and that he felt convinced that at no very re-
mote period the committee would see the necessity of
having a deputation of the medical board upon their body.
Mr. MOZLRY complimented Dr. C. for withdrawing
from a contest which could but have terminated in un-
pleasantness. A letter had been addressed to him (Mr.
M.) after the last meeting, couched in shameful terms.
Had the writer the audacity to be there, he (Mr. M.) was
prepared to rebut every word of that letter. (Hear.)
Mr. GILL moved, and Mr. STITBBS seconded, a counter
resolution to the one of Mr. Banner.

After a lengthy conversation, the amendment was de-
clared to be carried by a division of twenty-one against
ten, and the meeting se, arated.